Whoa, that whole LeBron James whispering to the Lakers thing was crazy.
This blogging stuff is all brand new for all of us. And it’s changing every day as more and more websites and blogs come online giving more and more people power and voice, not just to write but to interpret things.
I spend months and [...]
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 [...]
New Lazenby post at hoopshype.com http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/lazenby/2010/01/24/gasol-an-all-star/
Roland Lazenby is the author of “Jerry West, the Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon”, set to be released by Random House/ESPN in February.
Jerry Buss celebrates the remarkable 30th anniversary of his tenure owning the Lakers.
Below is the opening to Chapter 1 of my new Jerry West biography, scheduled to be published by ESPN/Random House in January, is now available for pre-order on amazon.
My book on Jerry West now available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Jerry-West-Life-Legend-Basketball/dp/0345510836/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
01/ SAGA
Roane County, West Virginia, December 1910
The small boy placed everything that was his, mostly [...]
Damn, he was one lonely boy. Ambition will do that to you.
I was speaking to a group of high school kids last year and trying to give them a little bit of an idea about Kobe Bryant.
I asked how many of them had jobs. Several hands shot up. One kid was 17 and had just [...]
If you’re a Lakers fan, you’re in a deep funk about Andrew Bynum’s injury. No, Chris Mihm isn’t going to be Andrew Bynum, an immensely promising young center.
But Lakers guru Tex Winter was much impressed by Mihm’s progress at the end of last season in coming back from injuries of his own that had derailed [...]
