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LOS ANGELES (AP)\u2014Danilo Gallinari<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> scored 22 points, Kenyon Martin<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> scored
\nsix of his 18 in the final 3:24, and the Denver Nuggets<\/a> hung on for their sixth
\nstraight win, 95-90 over the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Kobe Bryant<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> scored 28 points for the Lakers, who snapped a nine-game winning
\nstreak to fall 2 1\/2 games behind San Antonio in the Western Conference. The
\nNBA-leading Spurs beat Phoenix 114-97 earlier Sunday to end a six-game slide.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has six games left to try and overtake the Spurs and earn
\nhomecourt advantage throughout the playoffs. The Lakers face the Spurs for the
\nfourth and final time this season on April 12 in their next-to-last
\nregular-season game.<\/p>\n

The Lakers need five more wins to reach 60 for the 12th time and third under
\ncoach Phil Jackson. All seven of Jackson\u2019s teams to reach 60 victories won the
\nNBA title, including five times with Chicago.<\/p>\n

The Lakers went into the All-Star break 8 1\/2 games behind the Spurs following
\na three-game skid capped by an embarrassing 104-99 road loss to league-worst
\nCleveland.<\/p>\n

Pau Gasol<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> had 16 points and 12 rebounds for the Lakers, and reserve Lamar
\nOdom<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> chipped in with 17 points and seven boards. Andrew Bynum<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> had 16 rebounds
\nand reserve forward Matt Barnes<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> returned from a one-game suspension with five
\npoints in 18 minutes.<\/p>\n

The Lakers were leading 49-46 when Gasol was fouled by Nene on a dunk and
\ncrashed to the floor holding his right knee with 9:17 left in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

Gasol flexed his leg several times at the scorer\u2019s table after the ensuing
\ntimeout before play resumed, and he played another 60 seconds before going to
\nthe dressing room. The four-time All-Star was back on the bench moments later
\nand reported back in with 4:11 left in the third.<\/p>\n

Bryant missed seven of his first nine shots, but still led the Lakers to a
\n47-40 halftime lead\u2014offsetting Gallinari\u2019s 18 first-half points.<\/p>\n

Nuggets sixth man J.R. Smith<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> picked up three fouls in less than 5 minutes
\nafter reporting into the game. He played 16 minutes and finished with only four
\npoints.<\/p>\n

Both teams got off to cold-shooting starts, with Los Angeles starting out 6
\nfor 21 and Denver going 5 for 17.<\/p>\n

Referee Ron Garretson handed out technical fouls to Nuggets coach George
\nKarl and Bryant during the second quarter.<\/p>\n

Jackson-coached teams are 38-21 against teams coached by George Karl during
\ntheir off-and-on 17-year rivalry\u2014including a 12-4 mark in the postseason.
\nJackson\u2019s Bulls beat Karl\u2019s Seattle SuperSonics in the 1996 NBA Finals, and the
\nLakers eliminated the Nuggets from the playoffs in 2008 and 2009.<\/p>\n

Notes: Bryant needs to play 58 more minutes to become the 24th player in NBA
\nhistory with at least 40,000 in the regular season \u2026 Former Lakers assistant
\ncoach Tex Winter, whose innovative triangle offense served as a blueprint for
\nJackson\u2019s NBA-record 11 championships in Chicago and Los Angeles, will formally
\nbe announced as one of the newest members of the Basketball Hall of Fame on
\nMonday prior to the NCAA championship game at Houston\u2014the city where he spent
\nhis only two seasons as an NBA head coach with the Rockets in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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