Game Preview

Thank goodness for Jordan Clarkson. Wait. What? If I’d have told you, when the season’s schedule came out, that the thing I’d be looking forward to the most when the Lakers and Knicks played a Sunday day game — originally scheduled to be on ABC — was the second round rookie’s play, you’d have thought […]

The Bulls visit the Lakers tonight and they come in flashing some of the determination, grit, and, most of all big victories, that had many installing them as the eastern conference favorites to reach the finals. They are winners in three of their last four games, with all three of the wins coming against strong […]

The Lakers are 1-11 in their last twelve games. They have lost eight games in a row – their longest streak of the season. Their last win was 18 days ago against a Magic team who is also quite bad. The team is currently 21 games under .500 and 13.5 games back of the 8th […]

Luckily for me, I’d say, I did not watch the Lakers/Spurs game live. A review of the film, however, pretty much reinforced what the boxscore told me. The biggest item from that boxscore, of course, was that Jeremy Lin did not play a minute. Lin was hurdled in the rotation by rookie Jordan Clarkson (who […]

The three or four games that the Lakers played against the Spurs were always a part of a select few games that were an absolute must watch for the matchup. The Spurs, as the defending champions, are still a team, as a basketball fan, that you still need to consume a fair amount of during the […]

While the X’s and O’s of this game will matter — they always do — tonight’s Lakers game in New Orleans against the Pelicans will likely be impacted just as much, if not more, but who plays and who does not. Both teams have been dealing with players sitting out lately and while the news […]

The Lakers are in Phoenix tonight, playing the second of four consecutive games on the road. The first game was a loss at Utah, a game that saw the team struggle mightily to contain Gordan Hayward while also allowing the Derrick Favors and Trey Burke to have good nights (though Burke did so rather inefficiently). […]

If nothing else, the Lakers loss to the Cavs on Thursday night provided what too few games this year have: fun. Kobe’s wonderful stat-line of 19 points and (career high!) 17 assists wasn’t just a joy to watch, he was a full of joy while displaying the skill and basketball acumen needed to compile such […]

After facing LeBron’s old team on Tuesday, the Lakers face his new (and, I guess, old too) team tonight when the Cavaliers visit Staples Center. And while I can go into the struggles of both teams — the Cavs have lost nine of 10 games (including their last six) and the Lakers are, well, you […]

Since the moment the Lakers traded Shaq to the Heat following the 2004 season, whenever you saw Miami vs. Los Angeles on the schedule it was appointment viewing. Even in those early days where the Lakers were bad and the Heat were one of the best in the league, I wanted to see prime Kobe […]