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Lakers not judging their season yet

Updated: April 9, 2010, 7:20 AM ET
By Dave McMenamin | ESPNLosAngeles.com

DENVER -- The Los Angeles Lakers clinched their third-straight Pacific Division title last week and a win against the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night would give them the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference playoffs for the third straight year as well. That doesn't do anything for Kobe Bryant.

"I don't care about that at all, I really don't," Bryant said after the Lakers shootaround at the Pepsi Center on Thursday afternoon. "We were expected to win the West. I expected to win the West. ...

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