Tonight could get ugly — Kobe has been suspended for tonight’s game by the league for the play on Jaric. While we could well argue that the league should just allow people to hit Jaric (Clipper fans will back that up), there was little doubt this was going to come down today. This play was […]
Lakers News
What’s Your Favorite Play So Far?
Welcome Back We all want to know if Lamar Odom will return to the court this Friday against the Bobcats. Well, judging by this LA Times article, Odom should be ready to roll. Practice on Wednesday seemed to go well for him. Kwame Brown is another story. It looks like we may have to wait […]
Roster Moves
The Lakers have cut Von Wafer and Danilo Pinnock. Not a surprise, although I’m disappointed that Pinnock just didn’t shine in camp like I thought he could. So, still on the roster are two guys for one spot, and who gets it says a lot about the Laker plans. On one side is hustling youngster […]
M*A*S*H*
Kwame’s shoulder injury is worse than previously thought — it is being reported that he will be sidelined three to four weeks. Normally that would not be a big deal, but Chris Mihm is not yet right from ankle surgery. He said in today’s LA Times he wants to be ready by the start of […]
Things I Want To See
There’s a long list of things I want to see this exhibition season. That starts with the Lakers’ first game Tuesday up in Fresno — I want to see it but don’t have the chance. It’s not on television and you need a much better reason than a Laker preseason game to get me to […]
Blogs, Glorious Blogs
You could argue that what the Los Angeles Times and Daily News are doing for the Lakers are not really “blogs†in the spirit of the word. (But I don’t want to get into a debate about semantics.) You could also argue that notoriously tightfisted ownership of the papers is looking for ways to squeeze […]
A key Laker to have surgery
Before this week, when I served on a jury for a “trip and fall†case, I knew nothing about hip replacement surgery. Now I know plenty (for a layman). And that makes me appreciate what Phil Jackson is about to go through even more, Just watching Laker games last season it was pretty clear his […]
We Built This City On Basketball?
This week I’m on jury duty, actually impaneled on a jury in a civil case at the Redondo Beach courthouse. This means during the day I’m awarding old ladies who spill hot coffee millions doing my civic duty, and at night doing the day job, so if my posting lacks this week I apologize up […]
Roster Decisions
I’m moving this from the comments below to its own thread — as you know, yesterday the Lakers signed the player they traded for in the second round, Danilo (J.R.) Pinnock. First and foremost, I like the signing, I thought he showed potential in the summer league. But there are questions. First, what kind of […]
Mihm gets Surgery
Forget about trading Chris Mihm before training camp, he underwent surgery to clean up scar tissue in his ankle. Much like Kobe’s knee, this was minor arthroscopic stuff to clean up scar tissue and he’ll be good to go by training camp. However, getting a trade for him now just got a little harder. In […]