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Things are slow in Lakerland, add to that I’ve been busy working on some site upgrades (that should go live before the start of training camp, ideally) and some other surprises and that has meant new posts have been getting the short end of the stick. For example, I started to put together a “what [...]

It’s less than a month until training camp opens, but time is dragging now and there is little NBA news anywhere. The good news is it looks like this Sunday, when not watching the first week of my NFL office pool go down in flames, I can get a basketball fix — including some Kobe: [...]

They call him “Dr. J.” The ABA’s leading scorer in 1972-73, Julius creates the flow of the game. He has a great imagination of the court and is an artist with the basketball. Those words are on the back of Julius Erving’s 73-74 basketball card, and that was my introduction to one of the games [...]

Shouldn’t you be out at a barbeque right now? Enjoying the last days of summer rather than being in front of a computer? Well, for those who stopped by, thanks for coming, but there is little Laker news to report. Here are a couple things: • The Lakers have hired Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a “special [...]

Basketball has seemed very trivial these last few days. One of the things little discussed on this site is that I’m a big believer in volunteering — that living in a well-off nation as I do and in the manner I do is of great fortune, and I should give back. For the past few [...]