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By DAVID MARTINDALE Kobe Doin’ Work, a sports film from acclaimed director Spike Lee, is literally all Kobe Bryant all the time.On April 13, 2008, during the Los Angeles Lakers’ next-to-last game before the playoffs that season, Lee fixed 30 cameras and multiple microphones on the nba mvp.Whether Bryant was on court and in the thick of the action or biding his time on the bench (where he spent the entire fourth quarter of a blowout victory over the Spurs), the cameras dutifully documented his every move.The goal was to make a basketball film like no other, but the results are mixed. The film, which makes its TV premiere at 7 tonight on ESPN, offers insights into how a great player goes the extra mile to be great. Yet it also often feels like the ultimate PR vanity puff piece.Lee is just lucky that Bryant, who scored 20, didn’t spend the whole game in foul trouble.The director talks about this unique project:What inspired you to film a basketball game in this way, fro

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The los angeles lakers are confident they can wrap up their western conference semi-final against the houston rockets on Sunday, despite having driven their fans to distraction with wildly erratic performances.

Game 6 of the western conference semifinal series between the los angeles lakers and houston rockets was the most watched basketball game ever on ESPN.

Salivating for a Celtics-Cavaliers matchup in the East finals? How about a Kobe-LeBron duel in the NBA Finals? Sound good, right? Not to the Rockets and Magic, who have other plans, Ken Berger says.

With the Lakers struggling to get past the Rockets, maybe it's time to believe the Nuggets will win the West, Kevin Hench says.

Go with Boston and L.A. on Sunday when the NBA's Finalists from last June are playing in Game 7s. Start with the biggest reason: The Lakers and Celtics will be playing at home. That means friendly rims, friendlier whistles.

The houston rockets came up with one more stunning victory to set up a final showdown with the los angeles lakers.

The Rockets controlled this one right from the start. They rode Luis Scola’s hot start to a 16-point halftime lead, withstood a 16-2 Laker run in the third quarter and made play after play down the stretch to win.

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Aaron Brooks scored 26 points, Luis Scola added 24 points and 12 rebounds, and the scrappy, undermanned Rockets pushed the top-seeded Lakers to the brink in their western conference semifinal series with a 95-80 win in Game 6 on Thursday night.