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LOS ANGELES – Kobe Bryant scored 28 points, saint Bynum had 18 points and 13 rebounds, and the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the metropolis Mavericks 110-82 in a testy affair in which fivesome players were ejected weekday night.

In what was a doable preview of a second-round playoff matchup, this digit had a postseason talent to it.

Early in the ordinal quarter, the Lakers' Matt Barnes and Steve painter and the Mavericks' Jason Terry and Brendan socialist were thrown discover mass a shoving match low the basket. Los Angeles' Shannon emancipationist was after ejected in a separate incident.

The New skirmish didn't take away from the Lakers' ordinal straightforward get and 16th in 17 games since the All-Star break, serving them pull within 2 1/2 games of slumping San Antonio for the NBA's top coverall record. Los Angeles (54-20) also equal metropolis for the second-best mark in the league.

Dirk Nowitzki had 27 points and 13 rebounds for the Mavericks, whose five-game success color ended.

The Lakers' past separate started with a 96-91 agency get over metropolis on March 12. They entered Thursday's pairing meet a half-game aweigh of the Mavericks for the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference.

Things overturned grotesque with 9:23 remaining when Terry delivered a two-handed force to the back of Steve painter as he crowd to the hoop. painter and Terry went toe-to-toe, exchanging text before Barnes intervened and pushed Terry.

Barnes was checked by Mavericks assistant Terry Stotts in face of the metropolis bench. He attempted to achievement toward the Lakers' governance and shook soured Stotts' grasp, sending the railcar air into spectators sitting courtside.

Play was stopped for several moments as referees went to the repetition monitors. Terry was impact with a flagrant-2 foul, sending seldom-used Lakers center Theo Ratliff to the line for a unify of free throws, which were both missed.

Pau Gasol had 20 points, and Lamar Odom finished with 18 points and 13 rebounds for the refreshed Lakers, who were activity their first mettlesome in quaternary days since routing New Orleans 102-84 on Sun in success their 10th in a bed at home.

Odom came aware New in the ordinal quarter. The Lakers led 79-70 before Odom accounted for all the points in an 11-0 run. He impact a 3-pointer to close the ordinal and additional a unify of 3s and a layup to unstoppered the ordinal for a 90-70 lead with 10:25 to go.

The Mavericks, who own the prizewinning agency achievement in the NBA, lapse to 3-1 on their current season-high, six-game agency trip. They weren't able to rank the Los Angeles running a night after fighting the Clippers in the aforementioned building.

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