Lakers win 4 in a row and advance to the second round of the 2008 NBA playoffs

 

The Lakers, yes,they are the first team to make it for the second round of the 2008 NBA playoffs by leaving in the road a Nuggets team that could never found the right path in this first round, and so they lost 4 straight games to give Los Angeles a ticket for what is coming next, while they might as well go home and take a break from one of the best seasons that Denver has had in many years, since they came out from the regular season with an outstanding 50 victories.

What is the secret for the Lakers? Well let’s put it this way, this used to be a team of four guys playing along Kobe Bryant, who was considered one of the most despised players due to his selfishness on the court, but this season all along, Kobe has being the key of their success, he started playing along with his team, he switch his way of thinking and so Los Angeles has being better, more compact, and along the arrival of Pau Gasol, a player that is one of the best passers in the NBA, and another leader along with Kobe, that is what has the Lakers at four games of the finals, and Kobe getting closer to the MVP title.

Well it’s interesting, the Celtics, one of the teams that was considered unbeatable is now 2-2 with the Hawks, and the Lakers, a team that most critics were putting a stair below Boston, has swept the Nuggets with an ease nobody saw coming, and so now the Celtics are feeling the pressure of coming with two more victories and the Lakers are just celebrating and waiting for the next round, who would have predicted this... I guess not even a quarter of most experts, but hey, that’s the way it goes in basketball, and specially in the best league in the world.