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    After big trade, Lakers top short-handed Thunder

    by Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times Feb 09, 2018 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES_When the Los Angeles Lakers first took the court at Staples Center this season, any reasonable expectations for the team had to be fairly muted.

    It was, after all, a young basketball team playing in a conference with super teams in Golden State, Houston and Oklahoma City. There was a stalwart Spurs team in San Antonio, an arriving Timberwolves team in Minnesota and talented rosters across the hall at Staples Center and in Denver and New Orleans.

    Wins and losses weren't going to be the way to judge the Lakers. Progress

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