Mike Brown’s Mission: Managing the Mamba’s Minutes
I am twenty-three years old. In fact, I have NBA stars Kevin Durant and Kevin Love beat by at least a month and a half. So take that Kevins! I breathed air before you did! In all seriousness however, our…
Lamar Odom: Dealing with the Fall Out of Trade to Mavericks
"Being happy is most definitely not a choice. Choosing to be happy would be called faking it," articulated one fan on a recent article by Rob Mahoney from the Mavericks' TrueHoop blog, aptly describing the difficulties that come with celebrity; an…
Kobe Bryant: Playmaker Extraordinaire
He did it again. After showing the world that his scoring capabilities are far from diminished in the four games before Tuesday night's matchup (33 points a game on 50 percent shooting), he capped his Player of the Week exclamation…
Can Steve Nash Assist in Lakers Title Hopes?
Idea: Steve. Nash. Lakers. Lakers fan reaction: "OMG!!! I love Steve Nash, he should definitely come play for the Lakers!!!" Such is the rhetoric of the typical "valley girl" Lakers fan, amusing for staunch Lakers fans and ammunition for Lakers rivals,…
Win Shares and Kobe’s Effectiveness: Keys to Laker Victories
Growing up watching Kobe Bryant play basketball is like growing up religious, at least for many die-hard Lakers fans. I've been a Lakers fan since I was nine years old, and much of my development into adulthood paralleled Kobe's foray into…
Lakers’ Tweaked Offense Slowly Emerges Under Mike Brown
After last season's disgraceful exit from contention and in the foreboding departure of coaching legend Phil Jackson, it was clear to anyone who cared about the Lakers that changes were coming. Fans accustomed to winning are often accustomed to the…
Ho Ho Holly-Oop: Christmas Games Of Lakers Lore
Basketball is back, an advent of joy and celebration paralleled perfectly by the season of Christmas. And with the NBA season scheduled to start on Christmas day, it appears that NBA fans everywhere have been graced with the gift of…
Clippers beat Lakers in Thriller, Sweep Preseason 108-103
After being on the receiving end of the most thorough of drubbings, a fact only exacerbated by the nature of who the opponent was, the Lakers looked to make significant adjustments to their game-play Wednesday night in their rematch against…
What the Lakers Can Improve After Pre-Season Loss to Clippers
The buzz in Staples was palpable, an energy that was undoubtedly anachronistic yet nonetheless readily appropriate for such a heavily anticipated preseason game. A Lakers/Clippers match-up in years past spurred onlookers to absolute boredom, the perfect representation of the NBA's…
Financial Limitations Offer Tough Decisions for Lakers’ Present, Future
A city exalted for its bright lights and glamorous personalities, the slow-and-steady mantras that more often typecast the midwest seem to have no place in Los Angeles. But after the week’s most recent events, it seems that Lakers GM Mitch…
