James and Lakers advance with 131-122 win over Trail Blazers

[ASFN Admin]

While the ultimate objective is to win a title, LeBron James said the Los Angeles Lakers achieved a key goal against the Portland Trail Blazers - and it wasn't simply to win the first-round playoff series. ''We got better throughout the course of the series,'' James said. ''We knew we were coming into a series versus a hot Portland team that was playing the best basketball inside the bubble along with Phoenix.

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