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As purple and gold confetti tumbled from above and Jack, Denzel and the usually laid-back L.A. crowd roared, Kobe Bryant and the Lakers headed off on their final road trip this season.
They were lucky and relieved, but hardly satisfied.
It's not time for that.
"What's there to be happy about?" Bryant asked, unwilling to crack a smile on the menacing game face he has maintained for a week. "The job is not finished."
The Lakers needed a miss by Orlando rookie guard Courtney Lee on a perfectly executed alley-oop play in the final second of regulation to get to overtime, then escaped with a 101-96 win over the Magic on Sunday night to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA finals.
So dominant in winning the opener, the Lakers squeaked by.
But by 25 points or by one, they had a victory.
"I don't think we dodged a bullet," Bryant said. "They bounced back like we knew they would, played extremely well, and we got out of here with a win."
Pau Gasol scored seven of his 24 points in overtime and Bryant finished with 29 for the Lakers, who became the fifth straight team to win the first two games of the series at home. In that span, only the 2006 Dallas Mavericks failed to win a title after being up 2-0.
