I return from vacation 93 days before the Lakers tip off against the Suns on Halloween night and with very little news to comment on — what little Laker talk out there is not just rumors but pretty much pure speculation. So we’re reduced to talking about Chris Mihm’s golf game. Instead, let me mention [...]

There is a poetry that can be found in numbers. When you turn numbers over and around, when you attempt to make them tell you a specific story, those numbers begin to speak to you. When the numbers melt into the Language, they acquire the power to do all of the things which language can [...]

2006-08 USA Basketball Men’s Senior National Team 2006 USA Basketball Men’s World Championship Team Finalists Roster Carmelo Anthony Gilbert Arenas Shane Battier Chris Bosh Bruce Bowen Elton Brand Kirk Hinrich Dwight Howard LeBron James Antawn Jamison Joe Johnson Brad Miller Chris Paul Amare Stoudemire Dwyane Wade Cuts: Morrison, Ridenour and Marion (injury) Intial reactions: Dwight [...]

Being Mitch Kupchak continued… Is their a sixth and a half floor in the training facility in El Segundo? Because I know that a lot of us would love to take that elevator and pull the emergency stop button in between floors. What do we as outsiders really know about Kupchak and the inner workings [...]

The theory was to get away from the heat for a week by escaping to the mountains. Except that Big Bear had highs over 100 degrees much of last week. We’re going anyway. The family and I are off on vacation, but I leave you in the very capable hands of Gatinho, who has a [...]