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The Lakers ongoing pursuit of a point guard continues.

According to Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski, the Lakers have contacted the Cleveland Cavaliers about acquiring 4-year point guard, Ramon Sessions:

The Lakers have an $8.9 million trade exception, acquired from the Dallas Mavericks for Lamar Odom, to absorb salary. Sessions makes $4.3 million this season, and has a player option for $4.6 million for the 2012-13 season.

After having his best season last year, averaging 13.3 points and 5.2 assists, Sessions is taking a back seat in Cleveland to number one overall pick Kyrie Irving. But despite the lesser role, he’s proven himself to be valuable option.

Wojnarowski goes on to mention that Cleveland may be interested in a few of Lakers on short term deals — Barnes, Murphy, Kapono, Caracter, and Ebanks all fit the bill.

Cleveland is interested in stockpiling draft picks in potential deals, sources said. Several teams have inquired about Sessions lately, front-office sources said. The Lakers have a handful of players on short-term deals who can’t be traded until March 1.

No deal is imminent, but it will be interesting to see how Lakers management handles the hole at the 1 spot.

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It’s a little more than pitiful that the Lakers just experienced their second win on the road this season in their ninth try. They also lost a large double-digit lead in the second half and had to hustle in the last quarter to pull out the victory. But as the old adage goes, a win is a win, especially on the road. If only they didn’t make it so hard to come by.

On the second game of a back-to-back, it wouldn’t have been a surprise had the Lakers’ energy and efficiency plummeted more so than they did against the Milwaukee Bucks, who were in this same position last night, but the Lakers were aggressive early on, led by the play of Pau Gasol. Gasol was on fire to start the game, hitting his first four shots before throwing up a miss. Against one of the hardest working players in the league, Kevin Love, and at times against the relatively less-skilled Nikola Pekovic, Gasol got what he wanted when he wanted it, and Andrew Bynum followed suit.

After a three-pointer by Kobe Bryant in the third quarter, the Lakers sat on a 77-60 lead, but in the final four minutes, the Minnesota Timberwolves surged through and managed to cut the lead to just five going into the fourth. The Wolves only shot 39% in the third, but the Lakers, after a 54% shooting first half, managed to shoot even worse, converting just eight field goals in 21 attempts for 38%.

Minnesota took the lead for the first time more than halfway through the fourth quarter after Michael Beasley tipped in a missed shot. It looked like the Lakers were setting up for another loss, but they came through in the end to secure the victory.

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The (11-9) Los Angeles Lakers have traveled to the land of 10, 000 lakes, Minnesota, a state bordering on Lake Superior and on Manitoba and Ontario, Canada to face the (9-10) Timberwolves. Minnesota is the most northerly of the 48 contiguous U.S. states.

The Lakers return home to Minneapolis where the franchise began in 1947 in the NBL. The Lakers, with George Mikan, won five championships calling Minneapolis, Minnesota home.

The travel sick Lakers put on another disappointing performance in Milwaukee lost to the Bucks and now has a record of 1-7 on the road. The Lakers dropped a game tailor-made for their strength, superior size in the low post. The loss further enforced the fact that the injury to Steve Blake has really hurt this team.

Coincidently it proves that this team is in need of another playmaker on the perimeter. The best way to handle the situation is to provide more minutes to Darius Morris, and ramp up the development of the trio of Morris, Andrew Goudelock and Devin Ebanks. The T-wolves are looking to snap a 15-game losing skid to the Lakers. The Lakers are 8-2 in their last 10 games against the T-wolves. The purple and gold have won seven-straight at the Target Center.

There are several local ties when the Lakers and T-wolves match up. T-wolves forwards Malcom Lee and Kevin Love played for UCLA. Kevin Love’s father, Stan Love, played 81-games for the Lakers in the 1973-1974 & 1974-1975 seasons. T-wolves rookie point guard Ricky Rubio and Pau Gasol are both longtime members of the Spanish National team.

At the Target Center tonight, the Lakers are facing a talented young team on a two-game winning streak seeking to even their record. In Milwaukee, Kobe Bryant broke Jerry West’s franchise record for free-throw’s made and is four field goals shy of surpassing the captain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s team mark of 9,935.

The Lakers are seeking balance offensively with multiple players scoring in double digits. The Lakers have gone 14-straight games scoring under 100 points. The Lakers have to do a solid job defending the pick-and-roll play while avoiding the match up nightmare of a seven-footer defending a smaller faster guard.

It is imperative that the Lakers stop the dribble penetration of the guards, defend, control the tempo, and do a better job of boxing their men out and owning the boards. The Lakers have to take better control of the ball and limit their turnovers. It is imperative that the Lakers get back in transition and quickly rotate out to open shooters.

The Lakers bench has to come in a make an impact. The reserves will receive some open looks and have to knock down shots.

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Kobe Bryant might want to sit down a few of his teammates for one of his Kobe System seminars if the Lakers ever want to win a game away from Staples Center.

With the Milwaukee Bucks playing without center Andrew Bogut due to injury and missing Stephen Jackson due to suspension, it was likely that the Lakers, seemingly invigorated by their home win against the Clippers, would change this season’s theme of road futility against the 7-11 Bucks. But, despite leading for most of the first quarter during tonight’s game against the Bucks, the Lakers would fail to score 100 points for their 13 consecutive game, setting a franchise record during the shot-clock era in a tired 100-89 loss at the Bradley Center.

The only thing going for the Lakers on Saturday? Kobe Bryant, as always. Bryant would make six free throws to break Jerry West’s franchise record for free throws made of 7,160. Bryant is also three field goals short of tying Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s franchise record of 9,935 for the Lakers, which Bryant will surely break in tomorrow’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The Lakers’ loss on Saturday pushed them out of the top eight teams in the Western Conference at 11-9. The last time the Lakers had as poor a record after 20 games? The 2007-08 season after a December 9th win over the Golden State Warriors pushed the Lakers to their third straight win and to a 12-8 record, still better than what the Lakers have accomplished this year with both a healthy Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol.

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