Is win at Portland the season-changer Lakers were looking for?

Published Feb. 23, 2011 11:33 p.m. ET

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By Billy Witz
FOXSports.com
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Kobe Bryant was angry, Pau Gasol was frustrated and it looked like another one of those nights in Portland, where the Lakers are beaten as regularly as it rains.

Then, trailing by seven points with less than two minutes to play in regulation and again by two with little more than a minute left in overtime, the Lakers found the resolve that so often eludes them until April, May and June.

And seemingly out of nowhere, they walked out of the Rose Garden with a 106-101 victory that was well worth savoring.

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