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The Los Angeles Lakers look like a playoff team, from the cheap nfl jerseys from china free shipping superstar-loaded roster to the 25-point comebacks cheap china jerseys to the Kobe Bryant guarantees. But the West is a mess, and the conference's pre-eminent franchise remains on the outside.

Bryant's playoff guarantee is two weeks old, but it already looks pretty good. The Lakers are 6-2 since the All-Star break, coming out with the type of energy and ability expected when they added Dwight Howard and Steve jerseys wholesale Nash in the offseason. But they remain 1½ games back for the eighth seed, rising into a four-team scrap for the Western Conference's three final playoff spots.

The NBA has long had HGH on its list of banned substances but has never tested for it. Doing so means collecting players' blood, which the union has never allowed, and there was little agreement about the test's wholesale nba jerseys reliability.

But those concerns basketball jerseys have eroded lately, sources say, with a frenzy of progress in talks between the league and union. A decisive factor: Major League Baseball and its respected union have agreed to blood tests for HGH, weakening the basketball union's claims that the test was unreliable cheap football jerseys or that blood testing is too invasive.

Terms of the 2011 NBA collective bargaining agreement created a committee to hash out the particulars of HGH testing. Progress had been slow, until recently.