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2011 NBA Preliminary round - Series 1142.
New Orleans Hornets vs Los Angeles Lakers

Schedule and 2010-11 Results
Regular Season Records: Los Angeles Lakers 57-25, New Orleans 46-36
Game 1 on Sunday, 17 April: New Orleans wins at L.A. Lakers, 109-pts-100
Game 2 on Wednesday, 20 April: New Orleans loses at L.A. Lakers, 87-pts-78
Game 3 on Friday, 22 April: L.A. Lakers win at New Orleans, 100-pts-86
Game 4 on Sunday, 24 April: L.A. Lakers lose at New Orleans, 93-pts-88
Game 5 on Tuesday, 26 April: New Orleans loses at L.A. Lakers, 106-pts-90
Game 6 on Thursday, 28 April: L.A. Lakers win at New Orleans, 98-pts-80

SERIES NOTES:

Post-series assessment: The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the New Orleans Hornets 4-games-2 in MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series 1142, marking the ninth consecutive best-of-7 NBA playoff series victory for the Lakers. With the series 1142 win, the Lakers improve their best-of-7 NBA playoff series record to 67-28 overall and 6-2 in the Preliminary round. With the series 1142 loss, the best-of-7 NBA playoff series record of the New Orleans Hornets falls to 1-5 overall and 1-4 in the Preliminary round. The win order for the victorious Los Angeles Lakers in series 1142 was LWWLWW: Series 1142 thus becomes the third NBA Preliminary-round series, the eighth NBA series (all rounds), and the 27th MLB/NBA/NHL series (all rounds) to follow that win order to completion.

Pre-series assessment: In the 2010-11 regular season, the Los Angeles Lakers finished eleven games ahead of New Orleans. From 1947 through the 2010 NBA Finals, when NBA teams led their best-of-7 playoff series opponents by eleven regular-season games, they have posted an 18-5 (.783) best-of-7 series record in those series against those opponents. MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series 1142 is the sixth best-of-7 playoff series for New Orleans, and the NBA-leading 95th for the Los Angeles Lakers. In best-of-7 playoff series, New Orleans has a 1-4 series record, a 1-3 Prelim-round series record, and a 2-3 Game 1 record, while the Los Angeles Lakers have a 66-28 series record, a 5-2 Prelim-round record, and a 63-31 Game 1 record. Series 1142 is the first best-of-7 meeting between the New Orleans Hornets and the Los Angeles Lakers.