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Rings bring in a new Laker season

By J.A. Adande
ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

For the Lakers, the season will be the battle between knowledge and assumption. Knowing you can win is a good thing. Assuming you will win is a bad thing. Defending a championship is about finding a stride, exerting just enough energy to rack up the regular-season victories required for a high seed in the playoffs while maintaining a reserve that will allow you to flourish once you get there. So in some ways the key to repeating is actually figuring out how to do less, not more. It's the sam ...

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