Pau Gasol led his first playoff victory

This time there is a product of national euphoria to say that Pau Gasol was the undisputed leader of the Lakers. Catalan started to back a Lakers orphaned after the poor start of game Kobe Bryant.

Denver Nuggets - LA Lakers

Festival scorer at the Staples Center in the first of the match between Californians and Colorado. Kobe Bryant was just lucky in the early stages of the game by scoring 2 of 14 attempts from the field, so decided Pau Gasol take sides in the matter, to the point that reaching 36 points with 16 rebounds (and 8 assists, scraping the triple double). Those 36 points are the highest mark since Pau is an angel of the Lakers, and with they helped the Lakers when he missed most points from Kobe Bryant. Already in the fourth quarter, Kobe went back to being himself and scored all the team's points, reaching up to 32.

Denver Nuggets, as always, took Allen Iverson and Carmelo Anthony controversial their two highest scorers. Each scored 30 points, while Linas Kleiza scored 23.

So the Lakers take the first blow, which foresaw all despite extraordinary competition in the West and that we saw in the first clash Suns - Spurs. This competition may be an inconvenience for the teams facing West NBA Finals, because wear will suffer will theoretically use greater than the representative of the East, at least in the case it is Boston, with sweeping look of the Conference.

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Philadelphia Sixers 90-86 Detroit Pistons

First surprise of the playoffs. Philadelphia Sixers won last night the Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit and were surprised with a 90-86. They, along with Utah Jazz, the only sets that have already stripped-field advantage to the hosts of the crossings.

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Atlanta Hawks 81-104 Boston Celtics

That first meeting between the best record has against which has worst record (including classified). How could it be otherwise, won the best brand is. Boston left no room for surprise and with a bit of each (16 points from Pierce and Garnett, Allen 18, Rondo 15, 10, Cassell ...) gained 23 points to make it clear who's boss.

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Toronto Raptors 100-114 Orlando Magic

In the first half we saw how we were right when opinábamos the Raptors are going to go home very soon this year. The difference came to be in more than 30 points, Dwight Howard with a crushing under the basket (22 rebounds and 25 points) and intimidating on defense (5 blocks). The bases of the carburetor Raptors game, but Calderon was better than TJ Ford, who did nothing. Jason Kapono finished playing 30 minutes due to bad game Bargnani and Carlos Delfino. In Detroit, the headlines were enough to shred the Raptors, that make up the result in the second half (say).