Kobe Bryant displays a poster dunk over 2 of the big players of Brooklyn late in the game as they win by 9, 83-92 last February 5, 2013 at Barclays Center, Brooklyn. Dwight Howard did not played in this game after suffering an injury in his right shoulder as well as Metta World Peace who had been suspended for an altercation with Brandon Knight of the Detroit Pistons in the Lakers' win last February 3, 2013. The Lakers despite the loss of their two starters had come up big in this game with the help of Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and Steve Nash who stepped up for them and lead them to victory. Meanwhile, their star center, Pau Gasol suffers a late-game injury and did not return to the game. Now, the Lakers are feeling their injury problems again and faces their next game without Gasol as well as Hill who is out for the rest of the season in their line-up while the Brooklyn Nets played healthy as all of their team starters playing in the game but came up short against the Lakers. Joe Johnson of the Nets did not contribute well in this match as he only scored 11 the entire game with 4-15 shooting, Gerald Wallace with 9 points with 3-10 shooting and Deron Williams who scored 15 with 5 of 13 shooting. Only Brook Lopez excels for the Nets in this game with 30 points and 11 rebounds. The Los Angeles Lakers now had 3 more games below .500 and still ranked at the 10th spot of the Western Conference and the Brooklyn Nets sits in the 5th spot of the East with 28-20.
