Sports: Lakers take out Suns in 3OT thriller

When the Los Angeles Lakers led Phoenix by 21 points in the third quarter, Kobe Bryant and Lamar Odom were pretty sure their night would end briskly and tidily. After three overtimes, 276 combined points and a season's worth of heart-stopping moments, Bryant and Odom were merely grateful to stagger out of Staples  Center with a victory in a once-in-a-decade thriller. Bryant scored a season-high 42 points, Ron Artest got five of his 18 points in the final two minutes of the third overtime and the Lakers outlasted the Suns for a 139-137 win Tuesday night in an enormously entertaining rematch of last season's Western Conference finals.