Starring Kobe Bryant, quiet on the eve before one of the heavily anticipated regular season games to ever happen.  Meanwhile, LeBron can't stop his pie-hole from saying the wrong thing.

• LAKERS: Lakers Gameday | 12/25/10 | Heat
• Kobe Bryant still silent on eve of Los Angeles Lakers-Miami Heat matchup - ESPN Los Angeles
• Lakers-Heat Preview: The Hour of Purification Is Near - Silver Screen and Roll
• Forum Blue And Gold " In A Game Of Stars, I’ll Be Watching The Coaching Match-Up
• Kobe Bryant-LeBron James: The ups and downs of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James - latimes.com
• Fancap: The Kobe Or LeBron Debate | Lakers Nation
• Lakers center Bynum is the gift that keeps on sitting - LA Daily News
• LeBron undermines union with comments - Adrien Wojnarowski - Yahoo! Sports

Much more after the Jump.  Including a double feature...

NBA.com / Lakers.com:

• LAKERS: Lakers Gameday | 12/25/10 | Heat
• Phil Jackson’s Friday Practice Comments " Lakers Blog
• Christmas stage set for new villain LeBron to do his thing | NBA.com

Land 'O Lakers / ESPN:

• Roundtable: Lakers vs. Heat, what to watch - Land 'O Lakers
• Christmas Eve movies: Lakers practice report, videos - Land 'O Lakers
• Weekend Dime: Sizing Up Super-Sized Christmas Schedule - ESPN
• Kobe Bryant still silent on eve of Los Angeles Lakers-Miami Heat matchup - ESPN Los Angeles
• Don't buy the indifference: The Heat care - Heat Index Blog - ESPN

The Los Angeles Times:

• NBA: Miami Heat vs. Lakers matchup 
• Kobe Bryant-LeBron James: The ups and downs of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James
• Lakers games of Christmas past
• Lakers-Heat: Game against Heat is a wake-up call for Lakers
• Sizing up whether Boston or Miami is more threatening to the Lakers | Lakers Blog
• Ron Artest plans to come up with ways to make LeBron James mad in Lakers-Heat matchup | Lakers Blog

The Orange County Register:

• 'No one is getting crowned' in Lakers-Heat game
  You're right Dwyane. We've been crowned already. Two times in a row.
• Lakers vs. Heat: Heat game on par with 2008 Celtics game - Lakers blog 

LA Daily News:

• HOFFARTH: Lakers center Bynum is the gift that keeps on sitting - LA Daily News
• Stars align on Christmas Day as Lakers host Miami - LA Daily News

Other Lakers Blogs:

• Forum Blue And Gold " In A Game Of Stars, I’ll Be Watching The Coaching Match-Up
• Fancap: The Kobe Or LeBron Debate | Lakers Nation
• Laugh At LeBron Movement Comes To Los Angeles | Lakers Nation
• Why Gasol vs Bosh Is the X-Factor To A X-Mas Day Victory | Lakers Nation
• Can the Lakers Handle the Heat? | Lake Show Life 
• TLN’s Pregame Report: Lakers vs. Heat | The Lakers Nation
• RetroBreakdown: 1970 NBA Finals Game 7 – Knicks vs. Lakers | Lake Show Life
• Kicksologists.com Brings You: This Week in Kicks | Lakers Nation
• Rough Cut 12/24: Christmas Edition - Silver Screen and Roll

Fox Sports:

• Stocking stuffer for NBA fans - Charley Rosen's Heat-Lakers breakdown
• Lakers rarely give their fans a Christmas present 
• A real Dream Team puts Fisher in Miami 

NBC ProBasketballTalk:

• Let the "it’s just another game" banter begin 
• Wade game-time decision Thursday with sore knee. Don’t worry, he’ll go on Christmas.
• Heat’s Mike Miller almost went to the Lakers this summer

CBS Sports:

• NBA's Christmas feast can't disguise league's turkeys
• Heat team to beat? Not until they can defeat the elite

Misc. Links:

• Kobe Bryant, LeBron James set to meet on Christmas - Lee Jenkins - SI.com
• NBA Christmas Day Gives You Kobe vs. LeBron In Your Stocking | Dime Magazine 
• Heat-Lakers set to battle in possible NBA Finals preview - NBA - Sporting News
• Presents, and Perhaps Lumps of Coal, Await Fans Under NBA Christmas Tree -- NBA FanHouse
• An NBA Christmas Wish List - Basketball News & NBA Rumors - HoopsWorld
• Lakers Meet Heat in Possible Preview of N.B.A. Finals - NYTimes.com
• LeBron James Says He's Got 'Better Shoe' Than Kobe Bryant -- NBA FanHouse

Audio / Video / Photos:

• Christmas Day Showdown - ESPN Los Angeles
• Lakers Ready For Heat - ESPN Los Angeles
• Jerry West, Magic Johnson Conversation - ESPN Los Angeles
• Episode 8: Our Special Christmas Edition! | Lakers Nation
• NBA's Best Christmas Peformances - Photos - SI.com
• Barkley comments on Larry Brown, XMas games, Rex Ryan - Dan Patrick.com

*Double Feature*

"The Emperor's New Clothes"

Starring the foolish king without a crown, LeBron James, who continues to mumble stupid things, and thinks we're all just as dumb as he can be.

• LeBron: Contraction would be 'great' for NBA - CBSSports.com
• LeBron undermines union with comments - NBA - Yahoo! Sports
• Derek Fisher disagrees with LeBron James' endorsing league contraction | Lakers Blog | Los Angeles Times
• Los Angeles Lakers guard, NBPA president Derek Fisher responds to Miami Heat F LeBron James' comments on NBA contraction - ESPN Los Angeles
• What LeBron's forgetting: If teams leave, so do men with money - CBSSports.com Basketball
• Would you pay $500K to go to LeBron James' birthday party? - CNN.com