Mark Medina at the LA Times Lakers Blog interviewed me for a roundtable on the 1960 U.S. Olympic Team, which will be inducted into the Hall of Fame tomorrow. That team featured Jerry West and Oscar Robertson and was coached by the great Pete Newell, a former Lakers GM and longtime admirer of West.
Mark’s question [...]
Don’t cry for the Los Angeles Lakers just yet, but new forward Ron Artest has slowed up the team’s use of its famed triangle offense. That’s nothing new really. It always takes months, even years, for new players to find a comfort level in the controlled offense.
The Lakers knew that last summer when they signed [...]
In the wake of the Los Angeles Lakers winning the 2009 NBA title, much has been made of the 10 championships that Phil Jackson’s teams have won in his 18 seasons as a head coach. If you include the two other times Jackson’s teams reached the championship round and lost, that makes 12 times in [...]
