Kobe Bryant Voted to All-Defensive First Team
Lakers guard Kobe Bryant was voted to the All-Defense first team this year by the NBA coaches. Bryant was chosen along with Rajon Rondo, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, and Dwight Howard. This is the ninth first team All-Defense selection for…
Lakers’ Past Haunts Them, Present Fails them, Future to Redefine Them
It’s over for the Lakers. It’s over and what’s even more daunting is that the Lakers’ abrupt end at a bid for a third-straight title ended just as catastrophic as their journey began on the parquet floor of the Boston…
Lakers Disappoint Fans With Effort; Swept Out of 2011 Playoffs
Coming into today’s Game 4, the Lakers were faced with the possibility of a sweep. No, the Lakers did not have a chance to sweep―they had a chance to get swept. Kobe Bryant and Phil Jackson won five championships together,…
Lakers Face Elimination in Game 4
Mavericks Projected Starting Line-up: PG: Jason Kidd SG: DeShawn Stevenson SF: Shawn Marion PF: Dirk Nowitski C: Tyson Chandler Key Reserves: G Jason Terry, G J.J. Barea, C Brendan Haywood, F Peja Stojakovic This is it. Do or die. Either…
To Keep Three-Peat Hopes Alive, Lakers Must Look to the Past
"If you want to make history, you have to do historic things." - Kobe Bryant The Los Angeles Lakers find themselves in the basketball equivalent of the black hole. Down three games to none against the Dallas Mavericks going into…
Fancap: The End is Near
When the final buzzer sounded last night, I just sat on my couch quietly. I didn’t feel like crying. I wasn’t angry. I just felt….nothing. Numb, like I was an empty shell. I never expected the Lakers to be in…
Lakers Nation Running Diary: Game 3 vs. Mavs Party at ESPN Zone
The afternoon began with such promise, such hope. In my heart of hearts I truly believed that if the Lakers had won Game 3 they could have taken the series. And when they stretched the lead to 8 in the…
Despite Faint Glimmer of Hope, Lakers Must Look to Future
It's been about twelve hours since the end of Game 3 in Dallas and I still feel the same way I felt going into the game. The Lakers never had a chance. For a team that was supposed to cruise…
Lakers Fail To Close Game, Lose 98-92 ; Trail Series 0-3
The Los Angeles Lakers came into tonight’s Game 3 trailing the series 0-2 after losing both games at Staples Center. The Lakers had not seen such a daunting challenge since the Jerry West era, and history was not on their…
