The NBA Reset – 4/11/2011
Oh how the tables do turn so quickly. I feel like I could just take last week's Reset, hit Ctrl - F to find and replace "San Antonio Spurs" with "Los Angeles Lakers" and I'd be done. Watching Los Angeles…
The NBA Reset: 4/04/2011
It's Monday so it must be time for another edition of the Reset. The Starting Five: 1. How the west was won. All week, as the losses mounted for San Antonio, the vogue story became the Lakers incredible rundown of…
The NBA Reset: 3/30/2011
New York, New York Okay, so New York managed to fend off Orlando in OT to pick up what Carmelo Anthony had termed an “almost must win” game. As if that placing a label on a game then following through…
What Andrew Bynum Could Learn From Grant Hill
Character, some say, is what you do when no one is watching. But in the NBA that isn't quite right, is it? We put the athletes on our favorite teams on pedestals and expect them to be perfect, both on…
Bynum Suspension the Right Call
Lakers fans may not want to hear it. They may see it as an excessive penalty, an irrational reaction or just another draconian decision coming down from the NBA league office. But let's be clear. Suspending Andrew Bynum following his…
Lakers and Bulls on Collision Course
It’s late. Very late. I should be fired up. Instead I’m pensive... forward thinking. About three months forward to be exact. But more on that in a moment. Monday evening I watched as the Lakers have just put on a dominating…
The Secret To Drew’s Success
So much for Carmelo, eh? Something tells me that any Lakers fans who were pining for the ‘Melo express are now officially back on the Bynum bandwagon. And why not? Bynum may not be scoring points in bunches but he…
Are The Lakers Flipping The Switch?
With the Lakers jumping out to a five game winning streak after the All-Star break many pundits have been quick to attribute this recent mini surge as a sign that the team has finally started to arrive. They have, for…
For Lakers Ides of March Will Tell Story
The NBA schedule is not a sprint. It’s a marathon divided into segments like the acts in a movie. You know, like that new Black Mamba flick. As in any film first comes the opening act, the introductory phase that…
In Game of Stars Expect Kobe to Shine Brightest
Kobe Bryant certainly likes his All-Star games. He likes going there (13 straight appearances) and he likes bringing home the hardware (Three MVP trophies). With Sunday’s East vs. West confrontation taking place at Staples Center, there’s some added incentive for…
