The first team to 100 …

I guess the rule doesn’t apply to The Garden, especially if Kobe’s still on the floor.

Bryant might not win the MVP this season (BronBron once appeared to be the front-runner, at least for the first half of the season), but No. 24 certainly has a valid argument for the best finisher in the game.

According to Wikipedia, and we all know everything on the Internet is accurate as can be, Lawler’s Law has held true 91.5 percent of the time in Clippers games since 1978.

Don’t know what the national figure is, but it probably holds true more than 90 percent of the time across the entire league, since we all know the Clippers can’t hold a lead to save their lives.
Good thing for Laker fan, Ralph Lawler (the Clippers play-by-play guy) wasn’t on hand for the Lakers’ 110-109 win at Boston.

Once KG fouled out, you knew the momentum was changing — especially when Kobe relocated his jumper.

BINGO!

While Kobe struggled from the floor against RK’s boy Paul Pierce, going 10 of 29, he hit the big shots when he needed to and finished 4 of 8 from beyond the arc.

Kobe hit three of those treys in the fourth, the final one coming with 1:30 left and the Lakers trailing 100-98. And he nailed it with Pierce in his grill, giving the Lakers a 101-100 lead and putting the whammy on Lawyer’s Law.

FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS, GANG. WE’RE GOING DOWN TO THE WIRE!

Oddly enough, Kobe kept forcing shots down the stretch and actually missed his final five attempts — which takes some of the wind out of “best finisher in the game” statement, but I digress.

And I think that’s a credit to Pierce’s defense. I could watch him and Kobe go at it all day. Those two guys are as good a pair of defenders at their position as you’ll see. In fact, NBC should have an inset following those two at all times come the NBA Finals.

Luckily for the Lakers, they didn’t need Kobe’s heroics in overtime as Lamar Odom iced it with a pair of clutch free throws with 16 seconds left and the Los Angeles defense kept Ray-Ray from getting off a good look in the waning seconds.

And just like that — Lakers will another big road game with Bynum, own the best record in the league, and hold the possible tiebreaker over the Cs if they finish the year with the same record.

OH ME, OH MY!