0 comments by Jovan Alford on 12/10/2016
This week, has been an amazing week of basketball for Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Lou Williams. Williams, who is the Lakers’ sixth man coming off the bench, has been tasked with the duty of shouldering the offensive workload for a team without Jose Caledron, D’Angelo Russell, and Nick Young. Without Russell, the Lakers are […]
0 comments by Evan Massey on 11/21/2016
Jimmy Butler and the Chicago Bulls came into the 2016-17 NBA season with many question marks surrounding the makeup of their team. Some thought that they would be one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference, while others didn’t think that the Bulls had a good roster makeup. After the first 14 games of […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 7/10/2016
The NBA Playoffs are over, the draft is in the books, the major wheeling and dealing of free agency is over. Now it’s time for summer league where we watch young players try to hone their craft and make an impression. D’Angelo Russell was the star last night as he led his team to victory […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 6/23/2016
After the Philadelphia 76ers selected Ben Simmons, it was the logical choice for the Los Angeles Lakers to select Duke forward Brandon Ingram. Ingram averaged 17.3 ppg, 6.8 rpg and 2.0 assists per game in his only season at Duke. We got our guy, LA!! The Lakers select Brandon Ingram with the second pick in […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 5/31/2016
The NBA playoffs almost always reward resilience. Only in a few rare cases does a champion not have to deal with some degree of turbulence in the postseason. One example is the 1983 Philadelphia 76ers, who swept two series and won a third in five games after leading 3-0. The ’83 Sixers, however, represent the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 5/20/2016
The Eastern Conference Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the injured yet still scuffling Toronto Raptors are drawing very little reaction from #BasketballTwitter… and really, who can blame folks for not having much to say about this series? Say this much for Cavs-Raptors, though: At least one team’s playing well. Sometimes, neither team does. You […]
0 comments by Zac Voynow on 5/17/2016
With the NBA playoffs in full swing, it’s time for the teams who didn’t make it this far to turn their focus to the upcoming NBA draft. In this segment, I’ll focus on the top five picks in the 2016 NBA Draft. This isn’t an exceptionally strong draft, but there is still some serious talent […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 5/9/2016
Dave Joerger is now the head coach of the Sacramento Kings, which leaves Phoenix Suns fans in a state of clinical depression on Monday afternoon. Joerger essentially fired himself from the head coaching spot in Memphis, and as soon as he left the Grizzlies, he and the Kings rushed to the altar to get married. […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/30/2016
Hey, wait a minute — why did Kareem Abdul-Jabbar make his way into the headline for an article about Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference semifinal series between the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder? Shouldn’t we be talking about the Spurs shooting 69 percent in the first half of Game 1 […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Luke Walton has a proud papa today, but he also hopes that father doesn’t know best. Bill Walton’s body didn’t enable him to become the heart of an NBA dynasty, but the legendary center lasted long enough to win NBA titles for different teams in different decades. Luke Walton’s father appreciates the long view — […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/25/2016
It is virtually impossible — on Monday, April 25, 2016 — to sit in front of a keyboard or any other place on this planet and declare that Byron Scott is a coach other NBA organizations should want. Given the way Scott completely mis-coached the Los Angeles Lakers — who necessarily fired him Sunday night […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/14/2016
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 — it was a “Where were you when?” sports night, and for most American sports fans, Kobe Bryant made it that kind of night. Is that a fact in the same way that 2 + 2 = 4? No. Nevertheless, in judging from Twitter and morning-after output by media outlets, Kobe’s […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/13/2016
On the night Kobe Bryant plays his last NBA game, keep in mind that Bill Russell engineered the best farewell of any especially great NBA player. It is an art, orchestrating the perfect NBA walk-off. Being able to create the perfect exit from an all-time career requires an exquisite sense of timing, but the attempt […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Kobe Bryant is one of the greatest Los Angeles Lakers of all time. Being one of the best players for one of professional basketball’s two royal franchises is, itself, the richest of honors, an enduring point of pride and the centerpiece of a legacy. Bryant’s place — as one of the 25 best players in […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/5/2016
For the Los Angeles Lakers, no one problem overshadows the franchise… because there are too many problems to count. As we conduct an April Autopsy of the Purple and Gold’s NBA season, the D’Angelo Russell-Nick Young mess is not the Lakers’ foremost problem. The culture which created it — rooted in ownership, but evident in […]
