Jimmy Bramlett

Thursday night's Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals between the Kings and the Phoenix Coyotes marks the start of an unprecedented four-day span of sports in the 92-acre bit of Downtown Los Angeles that encomasses the STAPLES Center and L.A. Live complex.

Photo by Paul!!! via Flickr San Antonio Spurs defeat LA Clippers 105-88. The Clippers tried. After falling down 15 points in the first quarter, they managed to bring the deficit down to a point in the second quarter. But the Spurs were too good. Tony Parker led the Spurs with 22 points while the ageless Tim Duncan had 18 points. The Spurs did a good job of minimizing Chris Paul's contributions limiting him to...

Photo by =Manny= via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Oklahoma City Thunder defeat LA Lakers 77-75. The Lakers played the game they needed to play. They slowed the tempo, turned the Thunder into a jump-shot team and limited the transition buckets. Despite all of that, the Lakers still lost. With just over two minutes left in regulation, an Andrew Bynum turnaround bucket in the paint gave the Lakers the 75-68 forcing the...

Photo by =Manny= via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Oklahoma City Thunder defeat LA Lakers 119-90. With the exception of the diehard myopic Lakers' fans, no one expected a Laker victory in this game just two days after an emotional Game 7 win. But no one expected all the ugliness that bared its teeth in Oklahoma City. The halftime score didn't look too bad with the Lakers trailing 59-44. Andrew Bynum had...

LA Lakers defeat Denver Nuggets 96-87. What a difference a Game 7 makes. While Andrew Bynum had to eat his words about close out games sometimes being easy the last two games, the entire Laker squad showed up to finally advance to the second round of the playoffs.

Photo by Paul!!! via Flickr Memphis Grizzlies defeat LA Clippers 90-88 LA Dodgers defeat Colorado Rockies 7-3 Texas Rangers defeat LA Angels 10-3 TONIGHT'S ACTION Denver Nuggets at LA Lakers. 7:30 p.m. TNT, FSWest, AM 710 KSPN. LA Angels at Texas Rangers. 10:05 a.m. FOX, AM 830 KLAA. Colorado Rockies at LA Dodgers. 6:10 p.m. FS Prime Ticket, AM 570 KLAC. LA Galaxy at Montreal Impact. 1:00 p.m. KDOC, AM 1150 KTLK....

Photo by =Manny= via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Denver Nuggets defeat LA Lakers 113-96. Kobe Bryant spent the day with "gastroenteritis." In normal terms, Kobe was puking his guts out all day. It seemed oddly reminiscent of Game 2 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals against the Sacramento Kings when he scored 22 points in a 96-90 loss. The way this Game 6 started, one would have thought the entire Lakers'...

Photo by cindyvazquez-zavala via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr. LA Angels defeat Minnesota Twins 6-2. Who knew the Angels had 14 hits in them? And who knew the Angels could get all 14 hits in one game? But they did just that winning this series. Angels' starter Ervin Santana went 7 1/3 innings giving up the two runs in his first win of the season. Jordan Walden walked one batter in the...

Photo by =Manny= via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Denver Nuggets defeat LA Lakers 102-99. Andrew Bynum before the game said, "Close-out games are actually kind of easy." Easy enough for Bynum since he all but disappeared getting outplayed by JaVale McGee. McGee had 21 points and 14 rebounds while Bynum had 16 points and 11 rebounds. Kobe Bryant did all he could with 43 points, but a last second three just...

Photo by Paul!!! via Flickr LA Clippers defeat Memphis Grizzlies 101-97 (OT). Blake Griffin led all scorers with 30 points and fouled out in overtime to help lead the Clippers to a 3-1 series victory over the Grizzlies. Caron Butler, broken left hand and all, scored 14 points while Chris Paul added 27. Of course, no one at Dodger Stadium seemed to care about the proceedings. LA Angels defeat Minnesota Twins 8-3. So Jered...

Photo by =Manny= via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr LA Lakers defeat Denver Nuggets 92-88. The game was tied at 86-86 with a minute left. Three pointers by Ramon Sessions and Steve Blake sank the Nuggets in their hopes of tying the series. Not even a Danilo Gallinari flop could slow the Lakers down. Kobe Bryant had 22 points, Andrew Bynum had 19 points while Blake had 10 and Jordan Hill had...

Photo by cindyvazquez-zavala via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr. Toronto Blue Jays defeat LA Angels 5-0. It seems the Angels have a hard time beating teams with a winning record. Fresh off their sweep of the lowly Twins and Jered Weaver's no-hitter, the Angels mustered only three hits as Blue Jays' starter Brandon Morrow tossed a complete game shutout. Albert Pujols went 0-for-3 and now has a batting average of .202. LA...