Friday, May 15, 2009

Rockets Force Game 7


HOUSTON -- Kobe Bryant sat at the scorer's table watching it unfold before his eyes. When the Lakers' leading man finally arrived five minutes into the fourth quarter, Houston's little-big man Carl Landry stood at the line after a vicious one-handed tomahawk.

The Little Engine That Could was up 10 and had no intention of letting the West's big, bad wolf blow its house down. Mixed fairytale metaphors aside, the Rockets added to their enchanted postseason fable with Thursday night's 95-80 stunner that forced a deciding seventh game Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles.





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