Lakers History: The True Story Of How Kobe Bryant Became A Laker
(Republished from March 2014) When a franchise achieves as much success as the Lakers have over the past 40 years, it's almost assumed that critics and envious fan bases will try to tear them down. Since they don't have the…
Kobe’s Extension Incorrectly Blamed For Lakers Free Agent Failures
PAGES: 1 | 2 | 3 For the millions of people who hate the Lakers and Kobe Bryant, and the basketball writers who love any opportunity they can get to mask an opinion as fact, this was another great summer. Not only…
Trying To Make Sense Of The Lakers Uneventful Offseason (So Far)
PAGES: 1 | 2 | 3 When the Lakers gave Kobe Bryant his massive two-year extension last November, it gave us a slight clue as to what their intentions were for this offseason. With nearly half of their salary cap…
Lakers Fans Need To Stop Daydreaming About Kevin Love … For Now
PAGES: 1 | 2 | 3 Without a playoff series to care about, Lakers fans have spent the first few weeks of the playoffs dreaming up scenarios based on about comments Mitch Kupchak made to reporters after their season ended.…
Now Might Be The Perfect Time For The Lakers To Bring Jerry West Home
A few events in the past 48 hours have me thinking. Mike D'Antoni's resignation coming on the heels of some other news involving a former Lakers coach is enough to make me believe that now might be the best time…
Lakers News: Mitch Kupchak Extension The Right Move
There are two kinds of Lakers fans out there: those who think that it was a good idea to extend the contract of general manager Mitch Kupchak and those who we should be embarrassed by. The fact that there is…
Lakers Showed Their Faith In Kobe, Now He Must Return The Favor
Oh yeah, let's just play next year and let's just suck again. No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. It's my job to go out there on the court and perform. No excuses for it. Right? You got to get things…
Magic Johnson’s Criticism of the Lakers Has Gone From Constructive to Destructive
Earvin "Magic" Johnson 9100 Wilshire Blvd.#1000W Beverly Hills, CA 90212 January 29, 2014 Dear Magic: As a lifelong Lakers fan, I would be remiss if I didn't make it clear upfront that you were my childhood hero and had more…
Kobe Bryant: Adopted Son of The City of Angels
The following is an excerpt written by Lakers Nation writer Andrew Ungvari. It appears in a new book by Alex Wong (contributor to The Classical, Hardwood Paroxysm, Yahoo!'s "Ball Don't Lie" and ESPN's True Hoop) entitled, steven lebron volume 1, a collection of…
Lakers Recent Slide Sheds Light On The Timing of Kobe’s Extension
At 14-25, the Lakers are in the midst of one of their worst stretches of games since 2005. Even at their lowest point during last year's "Season of Hell" they were never more than eight games under .500. While injuries…
