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Up over at Ballhype is my first post for them, a discussion of Team USA and it’s defense. The numbers will look familiar to regular readers of this blog, but this new post (made after further review of my notes and other thoughts at the time of the Team USA on the international stage, I [...]

Rather than a post about my 12-team trade that would get the Lakers Jermaine O’Neal — and they only have to give up a rack of basketballs and two Laker girls to be named later — regular poster Renato Afonso sent in a very good breakdown of the triangle offense and how the current Lakers [...]

Everyone talks about the guy drafted right before Michael Jordan, but the guy that was drafted right after him did pretty well for himself, too. For Laker fans, Sam Perkins was the guy who gave the team its one win in the 1991 Finals against the finally mature Chicago Bulls, then helped the team during [...]

Thoughts while waiting for the next episode of Mad Men on AMC….. • Jermaine O’Neal wants to be a Laker. And we want him. So, what’s the hold up? Well, a lot of things. The same things that have been holding it up all summer. And while O’Neal may have gone public with a non-demand [...]

Well, NBA news has slowed down considerably. KG in the East storylines are tapped out, Team USA has yet to start playing a game, what is an NBA writer to do to drum up interest… Kobe. He’s gone silent. Los Angeles is tired of hearing from him. But maybe that flame can be stoked. So [...]