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The los angeles lakers recently partnered with NBA Cares and Toyota to create the team?s 11th Reading and Learning Center. The new Center was unveiled during the 2008 NBA Finals on Wednesday, June 11th, at the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Monica and will p

The western conference champion Lakers were glad on draft day to have graduated to being one of the teams not looking to shake things up or bank on young help anymore. They were lying low going in with only the 58th overall pick—the Lakers' first-rounder went to Memphis in the Pau Gasol trade—and stayed low Thursday night by doing nothing except picking Kentucky guard Joe Crawford with that second-round selection. Crawford, 22, is a 6-foot-5 shooting guard who hails from Detroit and provides some immediate depth at Kobe Bryant's position in case the Lakers don't re-sign Sasha Vujacic, who is a restricted free agent, or bring over Chinese guard Sun Yue, the 40th overall pick in the 2007 draft.