After the Lakers' less-than-stellar 7-3 start, the expectations surrounding this team had substantially lowered. But as they've shown in the past, that's when the Lakers function at their best...
With last night's loss to the Spurs in the books, the Sixers stand at a dismal 5-12, their most offensively potent guard (Lou Williams) may be out for as many as eight weeks, and their attendance ...
Allen, I’m going to be frank here: you’re out of answers. Due to no fault of your own, your reputation in this league has been tarnished, downsized, and spat on...
First and foremost, an MVP is a leader. There are many different ways in which one can be a leader. Some leaders are more emotional than others, others are more maintained than some, but there ...
And how flipping dare anyone out there make of the Sixers after all they’ve been through! They traded away their franchise player, their only scoring big-man is always injured, their team ...
What, you don’t think an NBA season can end before April? You’re wrong. There’s no end of damage momentum, or lack thereof, can do to an NBA team over the course of a season if left unchecked...
Think of competing in the NBA as a constant struggle against a firm, deep current in the ocean. You are either moving forward or you are moving back. There is no treading water...
1) Boston Celtics (65-17) (low: 59 high: 68) There’s quite a difference between the highest and lowest possible amount of wins I have listed for this team isn’t there? The ...
Make no mistake about it, Kobe Bryant won four championships last season. Some may note that the championship rings of 2000-2002 were in Bryant’s display case years ago, but the sad truth is the rest of the world has taken this long to catch up...
1) Los Angeles Lakers 68-14 (low: 64 high: 72) The Western Conference just seems to keep getting better and better, huh? With the Lakers’ long-time nemesis Spurs having retooled, the Blazers ...
In his open letter to Ron Artest, blogger Kyle Slavin accomplished a lot. His page received innumerable hits, was featured on a ESPN column and Artest even directly responded to it...
There will always be the Dallas Cowboys, the New York Yankees, and the New England Patriots, but if we’re being honest no professional sports team in the world garners more dislike than the Los Angeles Lakers...
Nothing hurts more than making it all the way to sports' grandest stage only to walk away empty handed. At times, sports history can have a tendency to overlooking teams that fail to bring it all home, often denying them historical status...
The Mythbusters team graciously welcomed me aboard as I take the helm of the new NBA portion of our program. Seriously, due to the surprisingly eventful offseason, we've been hearing a lot of bold predictions, claims and myths...
It's very common that we find ourselves comparing the greats of today to the greats of yesteryear. How does the impact of Barack Obama’s "Hope" compare with the impact of Martin Luther ...
Breaking News: The Los Angeles Lakers were still the world’s best team before acquiring Ron Artest. Its pretty sad that the world seemed to have forgotten that fact given that the Lakers won the NBA title less than a month ago...
Prestigious universities such as Princeton and Yale are now offering free Ph.D.’s to all the individuals who have either privately or publicly claimed that Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers could not win a title without Shaq...
Depending on who you ask, LeBron James is God’s gift to the NBA, better than Michael Jordan himself, the second best player in the league, overrated, underrated, or even some complex combination of them all...
Just coming back from watching “Drag Me To Hell” I missed the majority of the first half and didn’t know what to expect when I first turned on my television set; I half-expected a sequel...
The team that really won yesterday’s game 2 matchup between L.A. and Denver doesn’t wear blue and white. Hell, they don’t even wear purple and gold. The real victors yesterday wore black and white...
In blasting the Houston Rockets out of orbit, the Lakers may have succeeded in securing a Western Conference Finals berth, but they’ve also created more questions than answers in the process...
Every year in the playoffs the road to the Championship is different from the year before. Although the NBA’s desire is to have the rounds become increasingly more competitive as the playoffs ...
Subconsciously or otherwise, Lakers fans have spent the majority of the year comparing this ballclub to last year’s NBA Champion Boston Celtics...
The NBA Playoffs = where subplots happen. Let's be honest, subplots are the cheese on a burger, the A1 on a steak, the caramel flavor in the ice cream. The Lakers are no strangers to subplots...
I’d like you to picture a beautiful girl dedicating herself to a relationship with a man who has proven himself unworthy more times than even Mother Teresa would forgive...
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