First Cup: Thursday

Lakers vs. Spurs Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times: "It was just one game, just Game 1, just a beginning. It felt like seven games, Game 7, an ending. The Lakers didn't just come back from a 20-point deficit to steal an 89-85 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference finals opener Wednesday. They turned basketball's smartest crunch-time team into dummies. They turned basketball's toughest veterans into twitching rookies. They stole a victory from a team that was doing e