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 [...]
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 [...]
Jerry Buss celebrates the remarkable 30th anniversary of his tenure owning the Lakers.
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 [...]
Damn, he was one lonely boy. Ambition will do that to you.
I was speaking to a group of high school kids last year and trying to give them a little bit of an idea about Kobe Bryant.
I asked how many of them had jobs. Several hands shot up. One kid was 17 and had just [...]
I have a new blog posted on hoopshype.com.
http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/lazenby/2009/06/10/protecting-kobe-from-himself/
It’s about Bryant and is based on an interview with Lakers assistant coach and longtime Kobe watcher Brian Shaw.
