Forum Blue And Gold

var iamInit = function() {try{initIamServingHandler(234,175,623552,”http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/Resources/Css/css2.css”)}catch(ex){}}() Records: Lakers 42-10 (1st in the West) Hawks 31-21 (4th in the East) Offensive ratings: Lakers 114.5 (1st in league) Hawks 109.5 (8th in league) Defensive ratings: Lakers 105.5 (7th in league) Hawks 107.5 (15th in league) Projected Starting Lineups: Lakers: Derek Fisher, Kobe Bryant, Luke Walton, Lamar Odom, Pau [...]

var iamInit = function() {try{initIamServingHandler(234,341,619816,”http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/Resources/Css/css2.css”)}catch(ex){}}() Terry Porter is getting axed in Phoenix because GM Steve Kerr and owner Robert Sarver made long-term mistakes but they can’t fire themselves. Not that Porter did a great coaching job, but he was brought in specifically to change the style of play the Suns had been successful with for [...]

var iamInit = function() {try{initIamServingHandler(234,355,612484,”http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/Resources/Css/css2.css”)}catch(ex){}}() If you read just one thing this weekend, make some time to read this NY Times article, based around Shane Battier but really about the use of statistics in basketball. Yes, it talks about Kobe, but I think the point about how to value basketball players is really the interesting [...]

I don’t get all that pumped up for the All Star game, although I think the H-O-R-S-E competition can be fun (I refuse to call it by the corporate name). But this beauty — from the people at Didn’t Draw Iron — should help. It’s a 2009 All Star Preview done 1980s style. • I [...]