Andrew Ungvari

Andrew Ungvari is a Los Angeles native and a Lakers season ticket holder since 1989. Follow him on twitter @DrewUnga.
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For Lakers Fans, Media Members It’s Time To Lay Off Jim Buss

If 2012 will be remembered as the year when people stopped making jokes about LeBron being ringless then let's also make it the year we said goodbye to Jim Buss jokes. That's because in addition to not being the buffoon…

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Pop Culture And The L.A. Lakers Pt. I (The 80s)

Basketball and pop culture have a long history together. It wouldn't be far-fetched to assume that having the league's most entertaining and glamorous squad  in the entertainment capital of the world only helped to blur the line between the two.…

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Five Years Later: How The Kevin Garnett Trade Changed The NBA

This week marks the five-year anniversary of two trades that undoubtedly shook up the NBA landscape. What we didn't know at the time was that it would spark the NBA's version of Star Wars and what has come to be…

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Mitch Kupchak Has Proven Again That First Round Picks Are Overrated

Care to  guess the last time the Lakers drafted someone in the first round of the NBA Draft? If you guessed anywhere between 2008 and 2012 you're wrong. It was 2007. If I asked you when was the last time…

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Predicting The Lakers Won-Loss Record Based On Their Schedule

The NBA released it's 2012-13 schedule on Thursday and, much like in previous seasons, the Lakers have an extremely home-friendly schedule to both start and finish the season. For starters, only five of their first 17 games are on the…

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It’s Now Or Never For The Lakers And Dwight Howard

Did Orlando Magic GM Rob Hennigan really have to travel 2,500 miles from Orlando to Los Angeles to hear what the rest of us could have told him without him ever leaving the comfort of his own home? Apparently he…

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Dwight Howard In Purple And Gold? I Still Wouldn’t Bet On It

Please just hear me out. Don't be that guy who only reads the headline and then immediately jumps down to the comments section to leave something nasty like, "GO BACK TO BOSTON HATER!!!" (I'm not from Boston, by the way).…

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In Buss We Trust – Lakers’ Success Due to Solid Ownership

James Dolan, Executive Chairman of Madison Square Garden and owner of the Knicks, reminds us once again this week how lucky Lakers fans are to have Dr. Jerry Buss as the owner of their favorite team. When it comes to…

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