If Jerry Buss really wants Phil Jackson back to coach the Los Angeles Lakers, now would be the time for the team owner to speak up.
Don’t hold your breath.
Although Buss could have lauded Jackson any time over the past two years as the Lakers won back-to-back NBA titles, the owner’s silence on the matter has [...]
It would seem that much has changed since the Celtics and Lakers met in the 2008 NBA championship series. Now the two teams meet again in the 2010 NBA Finals, and a lot of folks think the Lakers are ready to win a second straight title.
On the good side for the Lakers, they’re older and [...]
Phil Jackson is the master of match-ups. He knows that factor singularly rules the order of succession, not just in the playoffs, but on a nightly basis in the NBA.
It’s just that the match-up issues are more profound in the playoffs.
So now we have a fresh four-team tournament before us, the NBA’s version of a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“We just didn’t have any energy,” assistant coach Brian Shaw said at halftime of the Laker game against the 76ers at Staples Center on Friday night. What’s with that? The Lakers have been flat a lot recently. Here are some possible explanations for the recent energy shortage:
- The Lakers are satisfied with their championship last season. [...]
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 [...]
