Los Angeles Is Burning: Short preview for this game because: 1) I spent yesterday at the Long Beach Grand Prix, watching races and drinking Tecate, topped off by a Bad Religion concert (and really, one of the better ones I’ve seen, despite the fact it was still light out), so let’s just say this morning, […]
Archives for April 2006
On Tap: Phoenix Suns
Playoff Preview: If the playoffs started today, this would be your first-round match up. Turns out the playoffs don’t start for a few weeks. Right now, the Lakers are the seven seed, one game up on Sactown in eighth. The Lakers drop a few more like last night and Sacramento keeps beating the likes of […]
On Tap: The Denver Nuggets
Record: 41-34, 3rd seed in the West (but should be the sixth) Record last 10 games: 5-5 Offensive Rating: 103.3 (15th in the NBA) Defensive Rating: 102.1 (12th in the NBA) Getting the split: Two games against two playoff teams in two nights. The Laker playoff position is safe, but as tonight and tomorrow (in […]
Early Draft Thoughts
With a few days off for the team, and the NCAA tournament just concluded, I felt like looking ahead to the draft and what kind of players might be around for the Lakers to get. My first thoughts: It’s not great. This is considered a weak draft, and after looking at what might be around […]
Fast Break
Last night, I turned on my computer at home to hear my monitor make a large “popâ€, followed by the smell of something burning. Not good. It pretty much went UCLA in the finals on me. So, pardon if posting is a little more sporadic while I figure out how to afford a new computer […]
NCAA Finals (and some baseball too)
It doesn’t get much better for a sports day in Los Angeles — Dodger opening day in the afternoon and UCLA in the NCAA title game at night. Great day to for me to be stuck in the office, swamped with work. No deep thoughts here on the Dodgers ’I’ll leave that to those who […]
On Tap: The Houston Rockets
How happy is ABC? Do you think, before the season when they put this game on the schedule, they thought they’d have the 7th and 11th seeds in the West? Moneyhoops comes to Houston. The Rockets may be the most disappointing team in the NBA this season so you knew there would be changes, and […]
Trump Buys Lakers
In a shocking move, Jerry Buss has sold the Los Angeles Lakers franchise to famed New York real estate tycoon Donald Trump, setting off a chain reaction of events within the organization. It had long been assumed Buss would leave the team to his children, and he chose not to disclose the reason for the […]