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By Tom Withers / The Bulletin
June 5, 2009
LOS ANGELES — One step toward redemption, one step toward a ring.
Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers began the NBA finals with power and purpose.
Bryant, playing like a man possessed, scored 40 points and the Lakers, who have waited a year for a chance to erase bitter memories of a....