only play minutes at an NBA level but to, more importantly, contribute to winning basketball at the NBA level.

With a team heavily depending on young talent, the Lakers' 36-year-old coach collected his first NBA win in impressive fashion despite Harden's unbelievable night. The new Lakers took their first official steps towards developing a new culture.

The youthful Lakers took their first steps in forming a new identity in the post-Kobe Bryant era, and to the joy of their fans and their young coach, that process began with a win.Evidence relied on by Irving in support of his claims

8.25 Irving noted that shortly after the end of the war the Poles, who were in possession of all the records, claimed that altogether nearly 300,000 people of different nationalities died at Auschwitz. That figure gradually increased to four million, which was the number mentioned (unitl 1990) on the monument erected by the Communists in memory of the dead. The figure then came down again. As for the total number of those who died in the Holocaust, Irving claimed that the figure was said by Justice Jackson at Nuremberg to be a back of an envelope calculation. Other estimates were significantly lower. There are real doubts about the figures, concluded Irving. He said he did not want to "play