Lakers look for redemption at practice

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At the end of a 2 1/2-hour practice Saturday, the Lakers ran full-bore sprints.

Kobe Bryant was first, busting it hard. Right behind him was center Andrew Bynum, his seven-foot body churning and sprinting.

The Lakers weren’t happy with their effort during Friday night’s loss to the Golden State Warriors in an exhibition game, a 19-point defeat in which Monta Ellis had his way, scoring 24 points in three quarters before sitting out the fourth.

So the Lakers gathered together at practice and decided they needed some work.

‘They had a little bit of a meeting amongst themselves, I think, this morning because they felt like they didn’t give the right kind of effort last night,’ Lakers Coach Phil Jackson said. ‘It wasn’t that it was a bad effort, but nothing went right for them. So you got to start from a basic position of doing the right thing to get it all tied together again.’

-- Broderick Turner