Los Angeles Lakers defeated the New Orleans Hornets

Kobe Bryant scored 19 points and threw two stirring dunks on a sprained left ankle, and host Los Angeles Lakers defeated the New Orleans Hornets 106-90 in Game 5 on Tuesday night, taking 2.3 series lead.

Andrew Bynum had 18 points and 10 rebounds, and Pau Gasol added 16 points as the two-time NBA champions the protection roared back from a slow start in the main game for the three peat hopes with another dramatic presentation of the playoffs from Bryant, who injured his ankle in Game 4 .

Game 6 on Thursday in New Orleans.

Bulls 116, Pacers 89: Derrick Rose scored 25 points, Luol Deng added 24 and host Chicago finally played like the top seed, beating Indiana in Game 5 wrap up their first-round playoff series.

Top-seeded Bulls can breathe a little easier after the dominating performance of Rose, and their MVP candidate.

"The silent right now," said Rose. "I really can not believe it. This is a great achievement. I'm happy for my teammates, I'm glad for my coaching staff. They did a great job."

Rose seemed very well after spraining left ankle in Game 4. He was her writing and acknowledged that he was a little worried at first, but he got hit 8 of 17 shots. He dominated the early going and came up big in the third after the Pacers pulled within four. He scored 10 points in the last six minutes after returning with four fouls, and Chicago ended the quarter at
Magic 101, Hawks 76: see its first match of the opening-round exit since 2007, Orlando blew out the visiting Atlanta.

Jason Richardson scored 17 points, and JJ Redick added 14 off the bench to lead the Magic, who trail the series 3-2.

Magic center Dwight Howard battled foul trouble throughout the night and there was only one ball, finishing with eight points and eight rebounds. Orlando does not need his offense, though, as he broke out of a series of long shooting funk with 11 3-pointers.

"We're a good team, shooting," Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said. "It's more than us, that we showed in the first four games."

Kings: the corporate community in Sacramento, the NBA gave the representatives of deposits of more than $ 10 million in sponsorship commitments for the team to stay at least another year, rather than move to Anaheim.

NBA relocation committee will release the final report of Commissioner David Stern at the end of the week. Then the Kings owners Joe and Gavin Maloof, finally, will decide the fate of the franchise. Maloofs have until Monday to file relocation request to the league, a guy who the owners must approve by majority vote.

Citizenship Award: Almost seven years after Ron Artest was at the center of the famous brawl in NBA history, the Los Angeles Lakers forward was named the national league.