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Los Angeles Lakers Notes, Quotes

by Sports Xchange

Updated: October 4, 2008, 11:40 PM EST

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--The Lakers are having training camp at their home practice facility in El Segundo, Calif. They train in Honolulu every other year.

--Lakers owner Jerry Buss was on hand for the first practice of the season on Sept. 30 and socialized briefly afterward with Kobe Bryant.

QUOTE TO NOTE: "I was told not to say that I wasn't going to play Kobe (Bryant) in exhibition games. So I'm not going to say that Kobe is not going to play in this exhibition game or that. But there's a chance that they (Bryant and Pau Gasol, recovering from Olympic play) may not play in exhibition games." -- Coach Phil Jackson.

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