As a parent, I can’t begin to imagine what Lamar Odom is going through right now. My heart goes out to him, his wife and his family.
Odom has a foundation for children, if you want to make a donation I would think this is the appropriate place.
By the time the NBA draft ended — when Portland couldn’t find any more dance partners and Steven A. Smith was forced to shut up because the cameras were turned off — the Lakers ended up doing well in my mind with Jordan Farmar, a trade for veteran Maurice Evans and J.R., err, Danilo Pinnock.
Maurice [...]
NBA draft day is about hope, about the promise of the future. Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And a good thing never dies.
For the Lakers, the hope is that a raw prospect at 26 this year could become a key cog in just a few seasons. That a gamble at [...]
Update: Well, really there is nothing to update. Mitch Kupchak talked with the media yesterday (you can read about it here or here) and said nothing new or exciting. He’d like to move up but doesn’t expect to. He said they would take the best player available at 26, but don’t expect said player to [...]
Just clearing out the inbox a little.
• I’ll make it more formal next week, but we’ll be doing a draft open thread here next Wednesday, paving the way for comments (and a little live blogging). The draft starts at 4:30 but it will be more like 6:45 or so by the time the Lakers pick.
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