Lakers Finally Advance To Conference Finals

Seeing the current trend in the second round of the NBA
Playoffs, I never really thought that the Mamba and co. would win one on the road to close out the series against the Jazz. But I hoped. Finally, Laker faithful, it's done.
We can breathe a sigh of relief, at least for a few days until the Lakers play either the defending champion Spurs or the upstart Hornets. For now, let's just all revel in the glory of Kobe finally advancing to the West Finals, in Shaq looking like a washed-up pro, in the over-rated and over-hyped marketing persona of LeBron James and his poor FG percentage, and the return of the Lakeshow to it's well deserved glory days.

like Kobe said:

"It's a whole new ballgame.I ain't going on shootouts with butter knives no more."