Shaq's Dunk Delivers Lakers From Misery

LOS ANGELES - The playoffs arrived, and the Los Angeles Lakers hardly looked like championship material. But Shaquille O'Neal was in the right place to bail them out — barely in time. O'Neal's only basket of the second half, a dunk off an airball by Kobe Bryant with 17.4 seconds remaining, provided the winning points in the Lakers' 72-71 victory over the Houston Rockets on Saturday night.

playoff? n.(雙方得分相等時(shí)的)最后決賽

dunk? v.泡, 浸;【體】高高跳起把籃球塞入籃中, 扣籃

bail out? v.舀出, 跳傘；跳起

the Los Angeles Lakers? 洛杉磯湖人隊(duì)

the Houston Rockets? 休斯敦火箭隊(duì)