The Utah Jazz will try to avoid going down 2-0 tonight when they visit the Los Angeles Lakers in the second game of the Western Conference playoffs. Phil Jackson's teams have never lost a playoff series after winning the first game and the Jazz can ill afford to drop the first two contests.

The Lakers won the first game by a score of 109-98, covering the 7-point spread in the game's final few minutes, on the strength of a parade to the foul line, as Los Angeles shot an amazing 46 free throws in the contest and made 38 of them.

The line of the game is Los Angeles - 7 and the total is 211.

Once again, the public is behind the Lakers, as 70-percent of the money wagered on the game has been on Kobe and Company, while the sports services have been split pretty evenly on the contest.

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