I should respond to Jeanie Buss’s recent comments about my hoopshype column. She implied that I fabricated something about the internal conflicts of the Lakers. http://espn.go.com/blog/los-angeles/lakers/post/_/id/3878/new-k-bros-podkast-jeanie-buss
Is there conflict in the Los Angeles Lakers’ inner sanctum? Of course.
Is it wise for Jeanie Buss to play down such conflict? Yes. In fact, it’s important that they resolve it, [...]
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 [...]
Magic Johnson raised the issue Friday. Asked about the nature of modern competition in the NBA, he pointed to the Lakers and Nuggets.
“It’s obvious that those are two teams that do not like each other,” said Johnson, the former Laker great who owns a minority percentage of the team yet also doubles as a TV [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
OK, it’s just a fantasy. But did you see Jordan’s reaction when Jay Leno asked him in a televised interview the other night (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5osJ8-NttnU&feature=player_embedded#) if he could still dunk?
“Can I still dunk?” Jordan asked in disbelief. “Are you stupid?”
I saw my suspicion confirmed in that moment. Jordan has been burning to show people that he [...]
