Boxscore: Lakers 89, Bucks 100 Offensive Efficiency: Lakers 103.5, Bucks 116.3 True Shooting %: Lakers 51.9, Bucks 59.9 The Good: There’s only so many times Kobe can appear in this space it be a good thing for the team. Sure, it’s great to have Kobe playing at a level that rivals his peak in his [...]

Records: Lakers 11-8 (8th in West), Bucks 7-11 (9th in East) Offensive ratings: Lakers 102.3 (16th in NBA), Bucks 100.6 (21st in NBA) Defensive ratings: Lakers 100.1 (10th in NBA), Bucks 102.9 (17th in NBA) Projected Starting Lineups: Lakers: Derek Fisher, Kobe Bryant, Matt Barnes, Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum Bucks: Brandon Jennings, Shaun Livingston, Carlos Delfino, Luc Mbah a Moute, Drew Gooden Injuries: Lakers: [...]

 The warm afterglow of Wednesday’s Lakers win over the Clippers, is still lingering. There’s no game tonight, with a back-to-back away trip tomorrow and Sunday, against Milwaukee and Minnesota respectively. The Lakers moved from 10th to 7th with one win, and are only 4.5 games out of first in the west. That’s how tight it [...]

With 7:31 left in the third quarter, the artist formerly known as Ron Artest decided to momentarily ditch World Peace and ignite a battle that lasted the remainder of last night’s game against the Clippers, and also the foreseeable future. The Lakers had been flailing for the better part of two and a half quarters, [...]

The Lakers won last night and now everything is a bit more tolerable this morning. Complaints about what went wrong can be replaced with chatter about Pau’s aggressiveness, Bynum’s late game buckets and block, or Kobe’s continued all-around brilliance. But what can’t be lost in all that talk is the play of the bench and how [...]