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All That Jazz The Lakers need to bounce back after a tough loss on the road. The Utah game went down to the wire, but the Lakers let Boozer, Okur and Williams get double-doubles. That won’t win you many games. On the positive side, turnovers were at a season low 11, Odom looked aggressive and [...]

How is Utah 11-1? The answer is offense. Right now the Jazz are the best offense in the NBA, racking up 115.2 points per 100 possessions, much better than second place Detroit (111.9) and far ahead of the 10th-ranked Lakers (107.2). The Jazz are shooting a very nice 52.6% (eFG%) as a team, but more [...]

Before I head off to a tryptophan-induced coma and to watch my weekly football pool fall apart, just wanted to wish all of you a happy holiday. I, like you, have a lot to be thankful for (and a first-place Laker team is on that list, albeit fairly far down), you don’t have to look [...]

Welcome to first place, the view is amazing from up here. Can’t quite see all the way to the playoffs from this vantage point, but I bet on a clear day…. There were a lot of things to like out of last night, and not just frustrating Clipper fans. Here are a few notes I [...]

UPS. We’re not the nickname-giving type of blog, but we love the suggestion from Dan to start calling Kwame Brown “UPS” — What Can Brown Do For You? Tonight he may need to do a lot, his slow introduction back into the Laker rotation will get a jump start as the Lakers look to match [...]