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 [...]
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 [...]
