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NO. 4 VS. NO. 5 GAME 4

Los Angeles at Houston at 9:30 PM Sunday on NBC

Lakers lead series 3-0

The worst part of Ime Udoka's weekend, so far, was viewing Friday's Game 3 game tape on Saturday, watching Marcus Smart walk that dog. Smart knocked a good 22 seconds of all our lives out of the fourth quarter by letting the ball do the rolling.

Combined with an offensive rebound collection allowing the Lakers to drop the regulation clock from 3:15 to 2:35, and Udoka had to be annoyed re-watching his 11-minute fourth quarter.

Those minutes count, they were why Game 4 won't. Nobody should watch but for the drop-everything call that clings to 41-year old LeBron James.

Nobody should miss James' performances, even if Marcus Smart ends up the star of the show, bustin' through the door in a leather jacket, slapping jukeboxes and talking about "that weekend I spent last year in Memphis," always drawing laughs with his Nate McMillan impersonation.