Lakers' Buzzword: Playoffs They still might be another week or so away from officially clinching a playoff berth, but the time has come to consider what kind of team the Lakers will be in the postseason as opposed to whether they will get there at all. With Sunday's 105-94 victory over the New Orleans Hornets, the Lakers might just have punched their postseason ticket, moving four games ahead of the ninth-place Hornets with 10 games to play. -- Los Angeles Daily News Kwame Bloodied But Unbowed Kwame Brown was able to play Sunday despite having tweaked his left hamstring again Friday, but he was forced from the game early with a bloody nose. "I couldn't see nothing," Brown said. "I was bleeding, eyes watering." Brown, who returned late in the first quarter and had 17 points and six rebounds, has been successful while starting the past eight games in the absence of Chris Mihm, averaging 12.8 points and 7.7 rebounds. -- Riverside Press-Enterprise
