Thunder demolish Lakers by 40 points

Seven different Oklahoma City Thunder players scored in double digits in the blowout victory, but Durant still cruised to his 13th straight game with 20 or more points.

Big loss leaves even Magic Johnson nearly tweetless: The Los Angeles Lakers have been so bad, so boring, that even their most vocal supporter – and sometimes critic – has been pushed into silence.

“It was pretty heavy-duty surgery I had this summer”, Bryant said, referring to the operation which repaired his torn rotator cuff. “We’re looking to come out [Tuesday against Denver] and make amends for the way we played the last game”. Like I told them, I said, it was pathetic in every area.

Speaking of Tuesday, Bryant said that if he’s not able to play, “it just means it was a more thunderous dunk than we all thought”. “You can get excited about that”, said George Belch, chairman of the San Diego State University marketing department.

“I try to look at my legacy and how it impacts the future of the game”, Bryant said on a conference call with global media on Monday(Tuesday NZT). The Thunder flirted with breaking their record for margin of victory, which is 45 points.

The third quarter will forever be known as the quarter of Kobe Byrant, as the Black Mamba returned for a few minutes scoring ten points.

“I like took off and ran across the baseline, tried to get back before the ref saw me and, uh, I caught Denzel’s (Washington) attention and the ref caught me and I don’t know what we did”, Russell said, according to ESPN. That’s a fact. The golden franchise is 4-23 in its worst season ever, and its 118-78 loss against the Thunder inspires little confidence. A team full of great talent of yesteryear, but in today’s league, they are not playing to the level they once did, or need to be playing.

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Howard has a player option for $23.2 million next year, but likely will become a free agent instead, but says this is just a common sense move because it allows him to sign a long term contract at superstar salary prices. Westbrook added 11 assists in 28 minutes and Durant added 8 rebounds in 30 minutes. “All we have is right shoulder sore”.

In other National Basketball Association games Saturday night, John Wall had 27 points and 12 assists, Garrett Temple scored a career-high 21 points and the Washington Wizards beat the Charlotte Hornets 109-101. Brown’s first career start came in his sixth career appearance.