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Photo from NBA.com Sheed with the preview The Los Angeles Lakers were outshot, out-rebounded, out-defended, out-assisted and surrendered more free throws. Yet, in the end the battle-tested crew who fell to the Boston Celtics in last year's Finals are now just one game away from championship redemption after their 99-91 Game 4 overtime win in Orlando. Despite holding a 12 point halftime Orlando's youth and inexperience showed as they were Dwight Howard and Hedo Turkoglu missed crucial free throws, the Magic committed careless takeaways, Stan Van Gundy made fatal personnel moves and were outexecuted by the more seasoned Lakers. LA outscored Orlando 17-4 after trailing 87-82 with 6:06 remaining in the fourth quarter. Derek Fisher delivered a jaw-cracking triple to send the game to OT with 4.6 seconds left in regulation, and busted another three-point dagger with 31.4 seconds to go in OT. LA took a commanding 3-1 lead and in the first NBA Finals to have two overtime games since Ma...

Photo from Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images The winner of this game I believe will win this series. I said the Lakers in seven games before the series start, and I still stick to just that. I feel a big Laker win tonight. And talk about some refreshing news. Sacramento Kings forward Donte Greene saved a women's life . Just for that heroic action, 'll take back everything I said about how crazy he was to leave Syracuse after one year and be a poor man's Tim Thomas. God bless to him and that women for sure. Now here's Sheed with the preview - Sluggah Jells W ith the series shifting scenes to the sunny city of California both the Los Lakers and Denver Nuggets are seeking to seize control of the series with a crucial Game 5 of the NBA Western Conference Finals tonight at 9:00 Eastern time. Following several technicals, hard fouls and a ridiculous trip by Dahntay Jones on Kobe Bryant so deliberately grimey it looked like Jones was doing his rendition of the GS Boyz ...