08:16 AM PDT on Friday, June 29, 2007 EL SEGUNDO -- They're partying in Portland, celebrating in Seattle and smiling in Atlanta. In Laker Land, not so much. The NBA draft has a way of raising hopes in the league's darker corners...

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