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Tue, Jan 19th 2010, 10:11

Jordan helps spark Lakers to win over Magic

With the Lakers facing a seven-point deficit against the Orlando Magic with 2:57 remaining in the third quarter, backup guards Shannon Brown and Jordan Farmar entered the game and immediately locked eyes on each other.

“Now is our time,” Farmar said to Brown. “Let’s go.”

“I’m in,” Brown responded.

Brown and Farmar made good on their word. They were instrumental in helping the Lakers put together 15 unanswered fourth-quarter points en route to a 98-92 victory over the Magic, the first time the two teams had met since the Lakers won 4-1 in the 2009 NBA Finals.

If it weren’t for the bench play led by Brown and Farmar, the Lakers (32-9) would have losses this season from every single team they eliminated in last season’s playoffs.

“I told them they were the ones,” Lakers Coach Phil Jackson said. “They were the reason why we got this game.”

Lakers guard Kobe Bryant scored 11 points on only four of 19 shooting, partly because of poor shot selection and partly because an attempted wraparound pass to D.J. Mbenga in the second quarter irritated the injury to his right index finger, he said. Center Andrew Bynum, suffering what Jackson referred to as low energy level, scored only eight points and missed the entire fourth quarter, sick in the locker room.

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