Maya Angelou has a famous quote that goes, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” I think about this saying a lot in my life, for reasons that mostly do not relate to and go well beyond this little corner of my world where I focus on and try to […]
Season Preview
2020-21 Lakers Season Preview
The defending champion Los Angeles Lakers begin their season on Tuesday against the Clippers. They’ll get their rings and raise another banner before tip off and then start their long quest towards trying to do it all over again. And, as it stands today, they’re the overwhelming favorites to do just that. What a time […]
Lakers Season (restart) Preview – Five Things of Interest
While the scrimmages were fun (hello, Dion Waiters!), those games did not actually count. They were good cardio and a nice reintroduction of the players in the bubble to NBA basketball, but beyond that all anyone was really hoping for was to come out of them as healthy as they could be. The Lakers did […]
2019-20 Los Angeles Lakers Season Preview
Championship or bust. This has long been the mantra of the Los Angeles Lakers. When you have 16 Larry O’Brien trophies as an organization (dating back to the team’s days in Minneapolis), this makes sense. That said, when you have now gone 6 straight seasons without even making the playoffs, it is sort of comical […]
Laker Film Room Podcast: Lakers Season Preview
In this episode of the Laker Film Room Podcast, Pete and I riff on the idea that there’s a “great team in there somewhere” in the lead up to this Lakers season. The general concept is that this Lakers team has the right ingredients to make an extended post season run, but so much will […]
2017-18 Lakers Season Preview
I’ve written and deleted this post a half dozen times and probably a dozen more times in my head. I think I know what I want to say about the 2017-18 Lakers, and then…I don’t. I guess that’s how it goes when you have a team that seems on the cusp of being fun with […]
Lakers Podcast: 2017-18 Lakers Season Preview
In this episode of the Laker Film Room Podcast, Pete, Cranjis, and I offer up our season preview for the 2017-18 Lakers. We touch on every single player on the roster, offering up thoughts on what would make a successful season for each, look at key stats from the preseason, and get into the general […]
Lakers Podcast: 2017-18 Lakers Season Outlook with Nate Duncan
The Dunc’d On Podcast is one of my favorite NBA listens. Nate Duncan and Danny Leroux are smart, insightful, and die hard NBA fans who provide informed opinions on all topics NBA. For the 3rd consecutive year, then, I am more than thrilled to join Nate to discuss the Lakers on his podcast as part […]
2016-17 Los Angeles Lakers Season Preview
It is impossible to analyze anything about the Lakers’ present without interweaving it with their future. This is a team which just hired a new, 36 years young, head coach and whose foundation is built on similarly inexperienced players. Any examination of them must be viewed through the prism of them being works in progress rather […]
Listen: Lakers Season Outlook with Nate Duncan
With the NBA season only a week away, we are officially in the “season preview” portion of the year. Everyone is putting on their forecasting hats and trying to figure out exactly what is going to happen with the league. One of the best preview guys out there is Nate Duncan, who recruits guys who […]