Magic Formula

So Kobe finally got his fourth ring, he got he without Shaq and Shaq even said on his Twitter page that he was happy Kobe had won it all.

However having only lost one game in this series and never really playing at 100%, apart from maybe game one, were the Lakers even under any real pressure.

Magic coach Stan Van Gundy was bullish after game four even though his Orlando team had blown a 12 point lead at half time and ended up losing in over time. He talked about how his team would fight and believed they could still win the series, star centre Dwight Howard said lets make LA win it in LA. Unfortunatly neither happened for the Magic.

After a strong first quarter it was looking good but after they were blizted 30 - 18 by the Lakers in the second it was all but over. It seemed that as soon as the Lakers took a lead of five points or more over the Magic were not going to crawl it back.

Once again Kobe was scoring, Gasol was doing his usual job, Trevor Ariza finished up with 15 and Odom with 17, and this all tallied up to 99 and a Laker championship.

The Magic coming into this series were known as a three point shooting team apart from game three, their only win, it didn't happen, there seemed to be more talk about Rafer Alston VS Jameer Nelson than anything else and Superman didn't turn up.

The Orlando Magic will be in the mix again next year without question but they need to make some changes and key decision as players like Turkogul can opt out of their contract. So it could be a massive summer for coach Stan Van Gundy.

But at least we don't have to see Kobe's tough guy face anymore.