LOS ANGELES — History, not just the Los Angeles Lakers, is against the Orlando Magic.

Only three teams have ever come back from an 0-2 deficit to win the NBA finals. In 1969, the Boston Celtics did it against the Lakers in seven games. In 1977, Portland trailed Philadelphia before winning four consecutive games. In 2006, Miami dropped the first two games to Dallas before winning four in a row.
Sunday night’s game was the first to go to overtime since Game 5 in 2006, when the Heat beat the Mavericks 101-100 behind Dwyane Wade’s 43 points.
Just like Orlando, the Celtics, Trail Blazers and Heat lost the first two games on the road. The Magic lost 100-75 in Game 1. The series resumes Tuesday.
“The Lakers did a good job of protecting their home, and now it’s our turn to do the same thing,” Dwight Howard said Sunday night. “We’ve been in some tough situations. We’ve just got to fight our way out.”
The Magic advanced to the finals by beating Boston in the Eastern Conference semifinals and Cleveland in the finals, winning Game 1 both times.
“I’ve seen series turn,” Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy said. “We’ve got to go home and play a great game in Game 3 and get the win.”

LEWIS GOES OFF: Instead of losing in overtime, the Orlando Magic could have been blown out for the second straight game.
Rashard Lewis wouldn’t let them.
Lewis kept the Magic in it until Hedo Turkoglu and Dwight Howard finally started playing well, but the Magic fell short and lost 101-96 to the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 2 Sunday night.
Lewis scored 18 of the Magic’s 20 points in the second quarter and finished with a career playoff-high 34 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists. His six 3-pointers were one shy of the all-time single-game mark, tied last year by Boston’s Ray Allen.
“I wanted to be aggressive early on in the game, if not get shots for myself but create shots for other guys, and I was able to do that,” Lewis said.
Early on, the Magic were threatening to duplicate their dreadful offensive performance from their 25-point loss in the opener. Orlando shot only 32 percent in the first half, barely above its 30 percent mark on Thursday, and got only seven combined points from Howard and Turkoglu.
Yet the Magic trailed by just five at the break because of Lewis’ brilliance. He was 8 of 12 for 20 points in the first half after going only 2 of 10 in all of Game 1.
“We made it a good game, but unfortunately didn’t get the win,” Lewis said. “When you lose a game like that, the stats doesn’t really mean anything.”

NELSON’S REDUCED MINUTES: Magic point guard Jameer Nelson only played seven-plus minutes in the fourth quarter and sat out overtime.
“Whenever we get our minutes, no matter who it is, we go out and play. Nobody’s complaining about minutes or moping,” Nelson said. “It was coach’s decision. Everybody wants to be out there and everybody can’t. I’m not complaining it.”
J.J. Redick played 27 minutes for the first time since the Eastern Conference semifinals, when the Magic beat Boston. Nelson totaled 16 minutes Sunday.
Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said all his guards struggled.
“Our guards were 6 for 26. L.A.’s defense was good, but I thought our guards for the most part had very good open looks,” he said. “For the most part, we just couldn’t knock anything down.”
Redick finished with five points on 2 of 9 shooting. He missed an open 3 in overtime and turned the ball over when attempting to get a pass into Dwight Howard.

CALL HIM SKIPPER: Phil Jackson the baseball coach?
That’s right. Jackson’s first coaching job was as a baseball coach when he went to school at the University of North Dakota in the late 1960s.
Jackson liked the job, but found basketball to be more of a challenge.
“Jerry Reinsdorf always used to say, well, it’s probably more difficult than coaching baseball because you’ve always got to make a move. Every single move is another chess situation for you,” said Jackson, referring to the Chicago White Sox owner as well as his former boss with the Bulls.
No disrespect to Joe Torre of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the all other baseball managers out there.
“I definitely follow the major sports’ championships, and I think that Joe’s low key manner is something to what I have. He seems to be able to take everything in hand, also handle the players’ personalities I think is a big part of that,” Jackson said.

BANK SHOTS: Stan Van Gundy was hired as Magic coach two years ago Sunday. ... The Lakers’ Derek Fisher hit two 3-pointers Sunday, giving him 37 for his career in the finals. He trails only former Laker Robert Horry (53) and Michael Jordan (42). ... There was a moment of silence before Game 2 for Randy Smith, the former Buffalo Braves All-Star who died Thursday at 60 after a heart attack.