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Lakers Beat What’s Left of the Suns

The Portland Trailblazers of the late 80’s and early 90’s.  The New York Knicks of the mid-90s.  The Sacramento Kings of the early 2000s.  And the Phoenix Suns of the mid 00’s.  These are the teams that you just knew were going to win it all.  It was only a matter of time.

Then, something happened.  [...]

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Lakers Beat Thunder, Kobe, Durant Shine

Kobe Bryant drops 36 points, gets 4 rebounds and 5 assists, and shoots 13-21 from the field in the Lakers win over the Thunder in Oklahoma City, 107-93.  Oh, and by the way, he was completely neutralized.

This is how good Kevin Durant has gotten.  Tonight, he had 32 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals, [...]

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Sasha Vujacic Oscar Picks…Wait, What?

Sasha Vujacic is perhaps the best reason to watch the Lakers, you know, if you’re not into the whole basketball thing.  Here is a personality so strange, you can’t make it up.
First of all, do you really need a reserve NBA shooting specialist’s Oscar picks?  By all means, yes.  Sasha can snipe like none other, [...]

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Lakers Only Defense? They Won the Game

There are times when very little defense is played by the Los Angeles Lakers.  Enter their 111-108 survival win against the Timberwolves in Minnesota.
Leave it to the Lakers to make Ryan Gomes (20 points) and Craig Smith (19 points) look like All-stars.

It’s not like the Lakers can’t play defense.  The way they have turned it [...]

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Lakers Beat Hornets With Closer

The last time the New Orleans Hornets came to Staples Center, I attended that game and watched my Lakers lose.  You can read about my heroic struggles of that previous game here.  It’s epic.

Tonight’s game was even stranger.  The Lakers beat the Hornets 115-111, but not before giving up a 13 point lead with the [...]

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Lakers Attempt To Lose…Fail, and Mihmaniacs

What if I were to tell you that the Lakers were to play the Warriors at Golden State in the 2nd game of a back to back?  Now, what if I told you the Lakers were going to try and run and outscore this team and shoot more 3-pointers than them, with Ariza putting up [...]

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Laker Practice Fights, Bill O’Reilly, and World of Warcraft

Talk about feeling wonky coming off of a vacation.  The Lakers started the 2nd half of the season in grand fashion-starting with a hotly contested battle on exactly who the 3rd string center (now the 2nd string with Bynum injured) really is.
Ladies and gentlemen, witness DJ Mbenga and Chris Mihm-the battle for those glorious 15 [...]

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Sasha Vujacic Is Slowly Taking Over the World

It all started on an innocent Saturday.  I glance over at my sister’s laptop, and see that she’s on her Facebook.  Except something is not quite right.

I notice it right away.  One of her listed friends is Sasha Vujacic, innocent college-boy style picture and everything.
I point out Sasha on the screen to my sis.
“No way”, [...]

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Shaq and Kobe Write Final Chapter in Relationship

Never in my wildest dreams did I think the Shaq-Kobe saga would end like this.  I imagined a classic sports segment where the voice of a rushing narrator would quickly tell us these two went on to win a championship or two each (hating each other forever), and that would be the end of [...]

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NBA Slam Dunk Contest Is Fun, Judges Not Fun

Look at that awesome dunk by Rudy Fernandez.   His Spanish national teammate Pau Gasol passes it off the backboard, and Rudy goes all the way around for the sweet finish.  This dunk got a 42 out of 50.  Come again?

The announcers guessed it was because it took too long to finally get this dunk to [...]