So long, Brian Grant’s contract. Godspeed.
Archives for June 2007
Now Things Get Serious
It was a nice draft for the Lakers. That’s basically how I’ve felt about most of the personnel moves of the team in the past couple of years — they were nice. Nothing wrong with them, but they certainly weren’t not thrilling or aggressive. However, come Sunday, the time for something thrilling is upon us. […]
Draft Night 2007
UPDATE: The Lakers first pick is Jarvis Crittenton, a 6-4 PG out of Georgia Tech. The upside is he can defend and is long, very athletic and the pick gives the Lakers two young PGs to develop. There are questions about his decision-making and if he can shoot consistently, and one blogger I really trust […]
Sam Bowie and the 1984 draft: A Cautionary Tale
“You can’t pass up a great player at the big position for a great player at a another position…history bears this out.†-Bill Fitch On the eve of the 2007 draft the Portland Trailblazers are caught, once again. Select the anchor in the middle, the man who has the back to the basket game that […]
The Draft and The Police
I did two things of note this weekend — went and saw The Police at Dodger Stadium, on Sunday watched NBA TV reshowing some NBA draft coverage from the 1980s. So, what follows are some draft and Lakers thoughts, with a Police theme. Because I can. Walking on the moon. The dream part of the […]
KG and other Fast Break Thoughts
Do you think the guys at Getgarnett.com are happy today? • There appears to be at least a little fire with the smoke of a Kevin Garnett to Boston rumor. Nobody is covering this like the always-good Jeff at Celtics Blog. Mitch Kupchak needs to be calling McHale, at least putting offers in the mix, […]
Sensationalism Sells
The Kobe situation feels like it went tabloid this week — first the rehashing as new the two-week-old rantings of Kobe’s Web site, then this subversively shot video that reportedly says what the Web site said but with a few F-bombs thrown in. There’s no new news here — but how individual reporters and news […]
Kobe or Not To Kobe…..
In the wake of all the Lakers news of the last few days, commenter Reed sent in a very good breakdown of the Lakers options now including suggestions if the option is to trade Kobe. I think the underlying premise is the key — the Lakers have to chose a direction and go that way, […]
With the 19th pick……
With the 19th pick in the SB Nation (and friends) NBA Mock Draft, the Los Angeles Lakers select Rodney Stuckey, guard from Eastern Washington University. After considerable effort to make a trade that might mollify a certain cranky superstar, none of which came to fruition, we had to make the pick and went with the […]
Fast Break Thoughts
• Congratulations to the San Antonio Spurs and their fans — this was the best team in the NBA after the All Star break and it’s a deserved title. What is really impressive about the Spurs — and speaks a lot to their defense — was how they won games and series of widely varying […]