A Daily Dose of Nothing

The Lakers swept the Nets, winning game 4 of the Finals 113 to 107. This is L.A.'s third championship in a row and the franchises 14th championship. The Lakers sweep of New Jersey was the seventh in NBA history.

The Nets outscored the Lakers on fast breaks and in the paint, but they couldn't stop Shaq who had 34 points and 10 rebounds. Kobe had 25 points, 8 assists, and 6 rebounds.

Kenyon Martin had a playoff career high 35 points. He also had the game high and added 11 boards. Jason Kidd had 12 points, 12 assists, and 5 rebounds. Lucious Harris was the big scorer off the bench for the Nets with 22.

Post game comments

Nets head coach, Byron Scott
"I'm disappointed that we didn't take it further, but I'm also very, very proud of my guys. I think our guys have been fantastic throughout this whole season. I told them that we're not going to hold our heads down. We should be holding our heads up high because we got to a point where nobody in this room thought that we would get to."

Kenyon Martin
"How do I feel right now? How do you think I feel right now?" "Some guys don't have it in them. Guys come to play every day and some guys, you don't know when they're gonna show up. That's the hardest thing to deal with. I can deal with losing. But guys who don't bring it every day, that's something I can't deal with." "You get the stat sheet, it can tell you (who)," he said. "It's difficult to deal with, you know? It's the most important game of our lives, and people went and they just didn't bring it."

Jason Kidd
"The big thing is we had a great season, you know. Nobody had picked us to be in this position. So for us to get this far with the talent that we had and the group of guys, that just shows the character in the group of guys that we had." "We're not going to be satisfied -- we've got to use this as our first step of becoming one of those elite teams. Sometimes it's gonna hurt, but success has never come easy. So we just have to understand that."