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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
