People may not know this about my basketball fandom, but I love a good rookie. I watch them on draft night, choose them for my fantasy teams, and read David Thorpe’s rookie report and weekly rankings to see how this year’s crop is performing. I figure that tomorrow’s best players are today’s rookies and watching […]
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Forum Blue & Gold’s sixth birthday, but please don’t sing
[picappgallerysingle id=”10129710″] Six years ago this morning, I clicked on a little button that said publish and started a blog with this sentence: Welcome to my attempt at keeping personal sanity in the midst of the swirling vortex of controversy that is the Lakers. As I remember, 25 people read it, and they all found […]
We’re Back Up & Running
Yesterday afternoon and through this morning FB&G had some server issues that disrupted the site, leaving the site down for that time period. My sincerest apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused to all of you looking to talk Lakers with us. This issue is now resolved and we will continue putting up posts […]
What I’ve Been Doing While Kobe Has Been Loafing
First, things first: I enjoyed the Lakers win in Portland as much or more than any Lakers fan. It was kind of cathartic. And because of the circumstances for that win, I am now on the bandwagon for having Kobe as the sixth man, coming in off the bench. What do you want in a […]
The Transition Game
As you’ve likely read, Kurt is leaving Forum Blue and Gold. He leaves us to pursue the dream of any NBA junkie that loves to talk, debate, and write about basketball – a full time gig covering the entire league. I wish him nothing but the best of luck and plan to bookmark his site […]
I’m Out — But You Can Be In At FB&G
And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain My friend I’ll say it clear I’ll state my case of which I’m certain I’ve lived a life that’s full I traveled each and every highway And more, much more than this I did it my way —Sinatra I, Kurt Helin, am […]
Radio Is A Sound Salvation
[picappgallerysingle id=”7205911″] Tonight I’m going to do the same thing I do every night: Try To Take Over The World. That starts with being part of the ESPN Radio NBA Game Night pregame show. Tune in around 7:00 Pacific, 10:o0 East Coast time, and you can catch about 30 seconds of me talking Lakers defense. […]
ESPN Zone Lakers Blogger Talk, And Some Basketball
Reminder that this Friday night at 6 p.m. at the ESPN Zone at LALive (right across from Staples Center) will be the Lakers bloggers forum, and it should be a lot of fun. We’ll spend an hour or so taking questions and asking Brian Kamenetzky where his cooler brother Andrew is. Besides Brian (he’s from […]
Bynum, Atlantic Division Previews, And A Bloggers Round Table
First, some quick thoughts on the most interesting thing to come out of Lakers training camp so far (and no, letters to Ron Artest are not close, but because he loves to interact with the public and can be direct, we can expect more of that this season, sometimes with people baiting him because they […]
Back To The Future With NBA Finances
Finally, the Forum Blue & Gold Special edition Lakers championship T-shirts are here. At the suggestion of sT (one of our regular contributors), the phrase on the back of the shirt comes again from Chick Hearn: “This is your World Champion Lakers basketball network!” (This was always Chick’s station ID when the Lakers were champions.) […]