Jeanie Buss comes clean now? It strains credulity.
I reported more than two months ago that there was some conflict within the Los Angeles Lakers, that Phil Jackson (Jeanie’s boyfriend) might not come back to coach the team next year because her father (Lakers owner Jerry Buss) might not want him back.
Jackson himself confirmed as much [...]
We owe so much to that daggone Tex Winter.
Take, for example, the use of the word “facilitator.”
In Winter’s complex triangle offense, you have to have someone who sort of pilots the machine, who gets the group into the offense, makes the key passes, helps the group through its reads and changes.
Someone who sets things up.
That’s [...]
If you’re expecting a fan — blind in love or blind in hate — to be anything other than a fanatic, you’re wasting your time. By definition, true fans surrender all perspective. They turn the streets of their community, like the streets of Green Bay, into Night Of The Living Cheeseheads. Zombies on the loose, [...]
Thirty minutes, 28 seconds.
Twelve rebounds.
Four blocks. Four blocks!
Thirteen points on six of 10 shooting.
Two fouls. Two fouls!
Then there’s the sheer size. Somehow you can never quite fit Andrew Bynum’s size into a box score. His long reach and anchoring presence were so obviously, stupendously important Sunday.
The big cat of a Lakers center came right off [...]
Yes, they don’t even tip their first round series off until Sunday afternoon, but Kevin Durant and his Oklahoma City Thunder have already lost round one to the Phil Jackson and the Los Angeles Lakers. And even the $35,000 fine that the NBA levied against Jackson for his comments won’t blunt the effect.
That’s because Durant, [...]
