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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
