Yes, a quarter century has passed since the 1985 NBA championship series, when the Los Angeles Lakers finally vanquished the Boston Celtics franchise that had tormented them for years.
To celebrate that time when all the ghosts were finally sent packing in Boston Garden, I’m posting this excerpt from The Show, my oral history of the [...]
Elgin Baylor never won an NBA championship ring.
So how could you even consider him the All-Time MVP of the NBA Playoffs?
Well, you have to at least consider Baylor among the nominees along with Boston’s great Bill Russell (the centerpiece of 11 championship teams), Chicago’s Michael Jordan, and a select few others. By the way, the [...]
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So it is a poker game.
Lakers coach Phil Jackson confirmed as much recently when he opened up about Jerry Buss, the team’s 77-year-old owner.
“He’s a gambler,” Jackson told reporters before a recent game in Los Angeles. “He knows the odds, he knows when to take the risks. I think he carries that sense of this [...]
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March 16, 2010 – 11:59 am
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 [...]
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February 21, 2010 – 8:46 am
My biography, “Jerry West, The LIfe And Legend Of A Basketball Icon,” is due out this coming week from ESPN Books. It has received a lot of publicity recently because of a short section in the last chapter that deals with the Los Angeles Lakers organization learning in 1991 that Magic Johnson was HIV positive.
The [...]
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February 13, 2010 – 5:02 pm
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 [...]
January 17, 2010 – 6:41 am
Jerry Buss celebrates the remarkable 30th anniversary of his tenure owning the Lakers.
