Lord knows I don’t want to saddle Luke Walton with any sort of “savior” label as he prepares to return to the Los Angeles Lakers bench after weeks of nursing a back injury.
After all, it’s going to take time and patience for Walton to work his way back in. He’s only played two dozen games [...]
If you read closely between the lines of his recent comments, you can actually hear Lakers coach Phil Jackson mumbling “Uncle.”
The big guy is giving in. He’s not going to go tit for tat with team owner Jerry Buss over his coaching contract for next season and beyond.
Speaking to the media this week, Jackson acknowledged [...]
I guess I’m flattered.
First Jeanie Buss and now Lakers owner Jerry Buss have come forward to address my observations about the organization’s inner conflicts, particularly the job status of coach Phil Jackson (Jeanie’s boyfriend who used to wear a soul patch).
At least Jeanie addressed me by name. Jerry chose longtime Lakers writer Steve Springer to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
