{"id":397727,"date":"2011-04-25T23:14:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T23:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/25\/lakers-face-familiar-dilemma-vs-hornets-ap\/"},"modified":"2011-04-25T23:14:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T23:14:16","slug":"lakers-face-familiar-dilemma-vs-hornets-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/25\/lakers-face-familiar-dilemma-vs-hornets-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers face familiar dilemma vs. Hornets (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"45.2973316391\">\n<p>EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP)\u2014The <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/lal\/\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> were in this same jam last spring, tied at 2 in their first-round playoff series against a young, hungry opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Although the veteran Lakers coolly escaped that jam against Oklahoma City, their dilemma against the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/nor\/\">New Orleans Hornets<\/a> isn\u2019t quite the same.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, few players in recent playoff years have carved up the Lakers\u2019 defense as thoroughly as <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3930\/\">Chris Paul<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3930\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> is doing it in this series. For another, <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3118\/\">Kobe Bryant<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3118\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> is limping on a sprained left ankle that might be a bit more serious than the countless injuries he has managed through in the past few seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time champions face a pivotal Game 5 on Tuesday night at Staples Center, hoping <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3513\/\">Pau Gasol<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3513\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> will raise his game back to All-Star quality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/7515e1011303663980.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/sports\/rss\/nba\/SIG=11rck88mj\/*http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/news?slug=ap-hornets-lakers\" title=\"Lakers face familiar dilemma vs. Hornets (AP)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lakers face familiar dilemma vs. Hornets (AP)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP)\u2014The Los Angeles Lakers were in this same jam last spring, tied at 2 in their first-round playoff series against a young, hungry opponent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":397728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lakers face familiar dilemma vs. Hornets (AP) - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/25\/lakers-face-familiar-dilemma-vs-hornets-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Lakers face familiar dilemma vs. Hornets (AP) - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"EL SEGUNDO, Calif. 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