Former Lakers and WVU coach Fred Schaus has passed away. In his honor I’m excerpting a part of my new book, Jerry West, The Life And Legend Of A Basketball Icon, from ESPN Books:
One clue to Jerry West leapt out at me from a 50-year-old photograph, both comical and telling in its intensity. The photo [...]
Jerry Buss celebrates the remarkable 30th anniversary of his tenure owning the Lakers.
When I was a kid, I never quite understood what the saying “what goes around comes around” meant exactly. Things happen in circles, I decided, still not sure what that meant. When I got a little older, my perspective changed. I upgraded my opinion to “Things happen in cycles.” Later – as I matured a [...]
There’s much consternation in Lakersville these days. A lot of it centers on the team’s iffy defense.
Assistant coach Kurt Rambis is the team’s defensive coordinator, so to speak. Yes, the Lakers do trap a bit, but that’s kind of the window dressing of what they do.
Their basic problem defines what Rambis has chosen to do [...]
