Hey bloggers,

Today the Lakers were versing Tyreke Evans and his young Sacramento Kings. Kings were looking forward of taking advantage of the fact that Kobe Bryant wasn't in this one, but LA's deep bench stepped up quite well to help them win this one tonight. The Lakers bench had a great role in this game, especially Shannon Brown Kobe's replacement. Brown played great defence and provided the Lakers with just enough with Kobe out. ''It hurts but I just drown it out," said Brown. "I'm trying to get a nice rhythm that's going to be consistent through the playoffs." With Playoffs coming up, its just this type of intensity and play that this team is going to need if they want to repeat what they did last year and become back to back champs for this year. "Not having consistency is always something tough to deal with," Brown said. And hes right because this team has been going through some ups and downs and you can't have that this late in the season. Paul Gasol had 28pts and 8reb while Shannon brown added 24pts of the bench to help LA get past this young team. This was LA's last home game before the playoffs and they needed this win. The next face off against the LA Clippers here at the Staples Center but as the away team.