If LeBron James decides to move to Los Angeles, there’s no way he would choose the Clippers as his new team this off-season.
He wouldn’t go there to be part of a side act, says a basketball source who has known James well and worked with him since childhood. “And the Clippers are definitely a side [...]
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 [...]
It’s amazing that in 1907 a Harvard-educated African-American man could get thrown out of Washington, D.C.’s Central YMCA for simply wanting to watch a basketball game.
That fact, in itself, gives modern folks a fairly good idea of the territory Americans have covered over the past century.
It’s not like we should consider congratulating ourselves on that [...]
“We just didn’t have any energy,” assistant coach Brian Shaw said at halftime of the Laker game against the 76ers at Staples Center on Friday night. What’s with that? The Lakers have been flat a lot recently. Here are some possible explanations for the recent energy shortage:
- The Lakers are satisfied with their championship last season. [...]
I remember the night Kobe Bryant scored his first NBA basket. I was there in Charlotte, and to celebrate his milestone of 25,000 points scored I’m posting my story about his first basket in the league from November 1996. In those days, getting a little one-on-one time was easy.
YO, KOBE, WASSUP?
Never mind that the interviewer [...]
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 [...]
With training camp and media day opening tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov. 29), a few questions for and about the Lakers and the upcoming season come to mind:
1. Can Ron Artest keep it real?
Anyone following Ron Artest the last few months has to wonder if he is all there or if, like Shaquille O’Neal, he is all [...]
