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(SportsNetwork. Jim Kelly Womens Jersey .com) - The Los Angeles Lakers are the only winless team in the Western Conference and will try to avoid an 0-5 start when they host the Phoenix Suns Tuesday at Staples Center. The Lakers are 0-4 for the first time since the 1957-58 Minneapolis squad opened the season with seven straight defeats. In Saturdays 127-104 loss to the Golden State Warriors, Kobe Bryant scored 28 points, Jordan Hill netted 23 and Wesley Johnson finished with 15. Bryant has scored 20 or more points in three straight games and is averaging 24.8 ppg on the season. Bryant, who scored 19 points in the third quarter on 9-of-14 shooting, was impressed with the speed and athleticism of the Warriors. You cant blink against this team, Bryant said. They have quick triggers and a lot of guns. You blink and they bust the game wide open. The Lakers had a 35-29 lead after 12 minutes and were outscored, 32-20, in the second quarter. Golden State then posted a decisive 34-18 scoring advantage in the final period. Los Angeles turned the ball over 22 times for 26 Golden State points. It will have a few days to rest after Tuesdays game and will host Charlotte Sunday. Phoenix enters this matchup in LA on a losing note and dropped a 118-91 decision to the Utah Jazz Saturday in Salt Lake City. Gerald Green had 16 points to lead the visitors, while Markieff Morris scored 13 and his twin brother, Marcus, ended with 12. Goran Dragic, Eric Bledsoe and Isaiah Thomas netted 10 points apiece in Phoenixs first road game of the season. They did a good job tonight. They pushed the ball. They had a lot more energy, Suns head coach Jeff Hornacek said of the Jazz. Utah had a 52-34 advantage in rebounds and the Suns made only 7-of-31 from 3- point range. The Suns shot 41.4 percent for the game. The Suns will play five straight at home following their trip to Los Angeles. Phoenix defeated the Lakers, 119-99, on Oct. 29 this season and made 54.9 percent from the floor. Thomas had 23 points for the Suns, who have won 21 straight games when shooting at least 50 percent. Bryant had 31 points in that one for the Lakers, who lost three of four against the Suns in 2013-14. The Suns have won eight of the past 11 meetings with LA, but are only 2-10 in the past 12 games as the guest in this series. Ed Oliver Jersey . And though his comeback night didnt quite go to script, Bryant couldnt help reflecting on the work necessary to get back on that court -- and all the months of steady labour ahead to reclaim his game. Bryant had nine points and eight rebounds in his season debut, but Amir Johnson scored a career-high 32 points in the trade-depleted Toronto Raptors 106-94 victory over Los Angeles on Sunday night. Dawson Knox Youth Jersey . Left-handed reliever Boone Logan agreed to a $16.5 million, three-year contract on Friday, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. CFL training camps opened Sunday amid the uncertainty of a potential players strike. Veterans reported for the start of two-a-day workouts three days after negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement broke down for the second time in as many weeks. The old deal expired at midnight ET on Thursday, the two sides havent met since and have no new talks scheduled. The CFL Players Association has mailed strike ballots to its members but Alberta labour laws could push the start of a strike into next week. For defensive back Eric Fraser, a union rep for the expansion Ottawa Redblacks, thats a good thing. "Thats a lot of time for the (CFLPA) executive and CFL to sit back down and hammer something out," he said. "I dont think were too far away right now, but tough decisions are going to have to be made on our end and their end and hopefully we can nail something out and everyone leaves the negotiating table a little upset because they think they gave up a little too much." There has been one strike since the formation of the CFLPA in 1965. That was in 74 when a new agreement was reached during training camp without the loss of regular-season games. The 2014 regular season is scheduled to kick off June 26. Despite the huge cloud hanging over the league, Fraser is confident a deal will be reached. "I have 100 per cent confidence there would be no lockout or strike like (2012 in the NHL) in the CFL," he said. "You just cant do it. "A good deal is going to get done here and I think thats positive." The CFL and players met for 17 hours over two days last week but money remains a major stumbling block after the league signed a five-year TV deal with TSN said to be worth a whopping $42 million annually this off-season. That deal alone would reportedly net teams an extra $2.7 million in 2014. The CFLPA is looking for the salary cap -- which was $4.4 million last year -- to increase to $5.8 million, with a $4.8 million minimum. The league has countered with a $5-million cap offer and boosting the average stipend to $96,000 from $92,917. The players have amended their revenue-sharing stance. Instead of requesting specific percentages on gate, television and sponsorship revenues, the CFLPA proposed a fixed cap for at least two years. After the second if league revenues increased by more than $12 million -- excluding the Grey Cup -- the two sides would renegotiate the cap or the CBA would be terminated at seasons end. The league would renegotiate the cap if revenues increased by $27 million or more in the third year. Cohon, who called the CFLs proposal last week its last and best, has repeatedly stated owners wont agree to any revenue-sharing offer because league revenues and profits arent enough for the model to work effectively. And that bothers veteran kiicker Paul McCallum, the B. Josh Allen Bills Jersey. C. Lions player rep. "I dont know which way is up when (Cohon) talks sometimes," McCallum said. "All I know is the finances are what they are -- theyre black and white. "As players we just need to be treated fairly, and thats all were asking for. Were not millionaires here." For decades the CFL suffered financially, something the 44-year-old McCallum knows firsthand. But the veteran kicker feels the CFL is banking on the union cracking this time around. "To be quite honest, over my career weve sort of bent and bent and bent so I guess they think why would we not bend now," he said. "Theyre in for a rude awakening this time. "Enough is enough." Argos centre Jeff Keeping, also a member of the CFLPA executive, is glad to be playing football again but would readily replace his uniform with a suit for the resumption of contract talks. "The players are unwavering . . . we hope to get back to the negotiating table," he said. "Until then were here to play football." Veteran Ottawa quarterback Henry Burris is undeterred about the leagues labour strife but said its time the two sides resume talking. "The people that are in place saying all this stuff in the media, they need to quit all that crap and get to work and do what theyre paid to do and thats to make decisions and get this thing rectified so we can get back out here and do our jobs," he said. "For me thats the bottom line, as a senior member of the CFL, Im telling you guys Lets get this thing done, so we can get out here on the field and do our jobs because were looking forward to an amazing time here in Ottawa and we dont want nobody to spoil this party that we have planned." Toronto head coach Scott Milanovich has contingency plans for a work stoppage but says right now its business as usual. "Any practices we can get is great for the coaches, great for the players," he said. "It just makes the practices we get in even more important that we take advantage to all the minutes and reps we get." Calgary quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell and B.C. running back Andrew Harris are both pretty much taking the same approach. "Its not in my mind, its not in my control," Levi Mitchell said. "No matter what, whatever happens, the day you come back, if it does happen, youve got to be ready to play that day. Were going to come out here and compete and get better every single day and practise like nothings going on." Added Harris: "Were here to work. were here to get better. Youve just got to prepare as if everythings going great and were going to be playing." -- With files from Lisa Wallace in Ottawa, Donna Spencer in Calgary and Joshua Clipperton in Kamloops, B.C. ' ' '
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