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To be honest, I had hoped to have the second part of the season review up today, focusing on Kobe and the other guards, but the post is just not fit for human consumption yet. Look for it on Monday. Instead, here are some thoughts after a late night perusing of the postseason stats. • [...]

More thoughts and notes largely typed one handed in the middle of the night while up with my daughter (then edited the next morning after some coffee). • Kobe the Blue Power Ranger? (Thanks to Ben Maller for that one.) • The latest Carnival of the NBA is up at Deadspin, pointing you to a [...]

Here comes the first in a series of pieces over the next few weeks breaking down aspects of the team’s players and management, looking at both last season and the future. There’s something compelling about Smush Parker that makes you want to like him. Maybe it’s his name — or that he named his SUV [...]

After everyone else has had their say on the Laker “effort” in game 7, Phil Jackson chimed in a email interview with Hoopsvibe and essentially said what many (myself included) said — the Suns worked to take the ball out of Kobe’s hands in the second half, no one else stepped up. But the best [...]

A few links to pass along while I keep wondering why the Lakers didn’t foul someone with seconds left in game six, or at least let them have the uncontested two pointer: • Want a detailed look at Kobe and Raja Bell in game 7, well, Kevin Pelton gives us a good one over at [...]