(Best E Casino) - The Los Angeles Lakers attempt to take a commanding 3-0 lead over the San Antonio Spurs, as the teams resume their Western Conference final series tonight at the AT&T Center.

On Friday, Lamar Odom finished with 20 points, 12 rebounds and four blocked shots, and the top-seeded Lakers continued their home success in the playoffs with a 101-71 win over No. 3 San Antonio in Game 2 of the best-of-seven series.

Odom shot 7-of-10 from the field and MVP Kobe Bryant ended with 22 points for the Lakers, who shot 54.9 percent from the field. Jordan Farmar scored 14 Derek Fisher netted 11 and Pau Gasol contributed 10 points for the Lakers.

Tony Parker scored 13, and Tim Duncan finished with 12 points and 16 rebounds for San Antonio, which was outscored 55-34 in the second half and ended at 34.5 percent from the field. That included a 6-of-15 effort from Parker.

Manu Ginobili, struggling with an ankle injury, had just seven points on 2-of-8 shooting for the Spurs, who also finished 6-of-23 from three-point territory. They are 11-of-43 from beyond the arc in the series.

In the opener, Bryant exploded for 25 of his 27 points in the second half, and the Lakers erased a 20-point third-quarter deficit to stun the defending world champion Spurs, 89-85, in Los Angeles.

Lakers head coach Phil Jackson, who is an incredible 189-79 in the postseason, is a perfect 40-0 when his teams win the first game of a playoff series.

The Lakers have won three of their last four Game 3s in the playoffs, while San Antonio has won three straight.

Game 4 of the set is scheduled for Tuesday in San Antonio.

This is the 11th time these teams have met in the postseason. San Antonio is 3-7 versus the Lakers in the playoffs. The Spurs defeated LA in the 1995, 1999 and 2003 semifinals.

The Lakers knocked off San Antonio in the first round of the 1986 and 1988 postseason, 1982, 1983, 2002, 2004 semis and the 2001 West finals.

The Spurs, who swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in last year's NBA Finals, have captured four world championships (1999, 2003, 2005, 2007) in the last nine years. They are 4-5 in conference finals since joining the NBA in the 1976-77 campaign.

San Antonio is 6-0 at home and 2-6 on the road in this year's playoffs. The Spurs defeated the sixth-seeded Phoenix Suns in five contests in round one and survived a seven-game series with No. 2 New Orleans in the semis.

The Lakers, who captured the Pacific Division crown during the regular season, had no problem winning the opening round of the playoffs. They swept Carmelo Anthony, Allen Iverson and the eighth-seeded Nuggets, 4-0. In the semis, Los Angeles needed six games to eliminate Carlos Boozer and the fourth-seeded Utah Jazz.

The Lakers have returned to the Western Conference finals for the first time since 2004. They defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves in six games, 4-2, that year. LA has won this round four straight times.

The last time the Lakers lost in the conference finals was in 1998, as they were swept, 4-0, by the Jazz.

LA is 7-0 at home and 3-2 on the road in the 2008 playoffs.