Lakers’ Chances at 3-Peat Still Promising Without Home-court
If the most compelling two words in sports are game seven, then the most lucrative three words that follow are home-court advantage. There’s no feeling quite like the comfort of knowing that when it’s do or die, win or go…
Measuring the Lakers’ Outlook, as Challenges Lie Ahead
Over the course of the next couple of weeks, the Lakers have two easy games nestled in between six matchups against some of the league's best teams. It doesn't get any easier after that, so imperative that the Lakers come…
Artest to Step Up in Barnes’ Absence
Matt Barnes has been exceptional for the Lakers from the get-go. If the Lakers are to salvage his production value, Ron Artest needs to step up his game and show everyone he's still the number one option at the small…
How Indestructible is Kobe Bryant?
We've all come to appreciate Kobe Bryant's ability to play through pain. This season, the times in which Bryant has wanted to left his mark on a game by taking over, have been few and far between. If we are…
Lakers Get Going Amidst Flutter of Controversy
Three games hardly matter over the course of an 82-game season. That is unless the games prior to those three games have left fans feeling like their team is disheartened, uninterested, going through the motions and basically playing at such…
Now Playing: Lamar Odom as the NBA’s Most Famous Sixth Man
After three consecutive double-digit losses against the Bucks, Heat and Spurs, Phil Jackson decided he would shake-up the Lakers starting lineup, placing Andrew Bynum in the starting unit and sliding Lamar Odom back into his reserve role. In his first…
Kobe’s Temper Rises as Lakers Melt Under Heat
Time after time, Kobe Bryant has kept his silence as he's watched his team fail to become completely engaged in the competition. Failing to show up against the Heat, however, has left him no choice but to speak out, but…
Are the Lakers Playing David to the Heat’s Goliath?
A crowd of about 13,000 fans hadn’t even broken-in their LeBron James No. 6 Heat jersey’s when the sound coming through the amplifiers resonated against the walls of the American Airlines arena. The video on the jumbotron presented a dramatic…
Bynum’s Stint With the Killer B’s is a Limited Engagement
For now Bynum will have to play catch-up with the rest of the team as his body adjusts after having missed the first 24 games of the season. He'll do so while coming off the bench, but when he's ready…
A Farewell to ‘The Machine’
It only took a quick slick of the eyebrows for Sasha Vujacic to drain two crucial free throws with 11.7 seconds left on the clock during Game 7 of the Finals last season, even after sitting the entire fourth quarter.…
