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The L.A. Lakers defeated The Boston Celtics 103-98 to force a game 6 where the series heads back to Boston Tuesday night. “We didn’t want to see any champagne popping,” Odom said. “It wasn’t easy. I wouldn’t expect it to be.”Especially with Bryant, the game’s best player, on hand.

“We’ve won on the road before,” Bryant said. “We’ve played in tough environments before.”

But the league’s MVP and uberforce, who spent much of last summer grumbling to Lakers management for help to get him a fourth championship ring, didn’t have to fly a solo mission to extend L.A.’s season for at least another game.

Paul Gasol had 19 points and 13 rebounds, Odom had 11 rebounds and four blocks and Derek Fisher had 19.  

Boston is one win from its 17th NBA title and first in 22 years, but the Celtics are wary of Bryant. They’ve done a decent job of containing him through four games—his only breakout was a 36-point performance in Game 3—but they know Bryant can single-handedly beat them if their not careful.

Paul Pierce had 38 points while Kevin Garnett had 13 points and 14 rebounds. Ray Allen was good for 19 but it wasn't enough even though the Celtics had a chance to steal the game in the fourth quarter. The Celtics fell behind big again and had to come back which they did. They got to within two with just under five minutes left to play. Pierce had two costly turnovers in that span and Kobe Bryant put them away with a game sealing dunk with about 37 seconds left. 

“Guys are down and upset because they thought they could have, they thought they should have,” Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. “We played all year to have home court.” He's right. they have another two games to get that one win so don't lose heart Boston fans we've only just begun to fight. Did you think it would be that easy?  THEY WILL GET IT DONE IN BOSTON!

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