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Oh, well — you can't win 'em all.

But as they say, you can’t win ’em all — and this one, frankly, seemed like it couldn’t be won.

And no one expects the Lakers to come back to Los Angeles still unbeaten on the road, but as the basketball adage goes, “You can’t win ‘em all if you don’t win the first one.”

“We’re one of the few teams in America left that still control their own destiny in terms of the ability to reach their conference championship. We know you can’t win ’em all until you win the first one.”

True enough, and the first rule of sports is that you can’t win ’em all.