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Dwight Howard or Bust: Why the L.A. Lakers Are in More Trouble Than You Know
At what point are we just going to accept the indisputable truth that's made itself abundantly clear since midway through the 2010-11 season? As it is now, this Lakers team is without hope...
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Kobe Bryant vs. Michael Jordan: 6 Reasons Lakers Star Is Closest We'll See to MJ
If this season has taught us anything, Kobe Bryant is no Michael Jordan. The large discrepancy in their career stats has always been there but in the past Bryant fans, myself included, ...
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LA Lakers Trade Rumors: Who is the Most Expendable Asset on the Team?
When Pau Gasol arrived in the middle of the 2007-08 NBA season, the L.A. Lakers went on an absolute tear, rolling through the rest of the season, claiming the West’s first ...
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Mike Brown LA Lakers' New Coach: Why the Dynasty Is Really Over Now
This is suicide. I can’t think of any other word for it. But I have gotten ahead of myself. For those of you still unaware of the coming apocalypse, various sources, including ...
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Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and the Top 10 NBA Careers of All Time
This time last year the Lakers were rolling through the Western Conference on their way to another title and inching closer to becoming the NBA ’s next dynasty...
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Los Angeles Lakers: First 6 Orders of Business for New Lakers Head Coach
They say the hardest jobs in America are teacher, preacher and President of the United States. I would vote to have head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers added to the list...
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LA Lakers: The 5 Potential Reasons for the Lakers' Meltdown
The San Antonio Spurs , who led the NBA in wins for over three quarters of the regular season, have been ousted by a team whose franchise had not previously won a single playoff game in its history...
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L.A. Lakers: With Playoffs Looming, Lakers' Rugged Play Proves Dallas Unworthy
My broken laptop and the inadequate state of my school’s computer labs be damned. This simply could not wait. Last night featured the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks duking it out in a battle for the Western Conference’s No...
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Chris Bosh and the 15 Biggest Whiners In the NBA
The NBA is the undisputed leader among professional sporting leagues in unnecessary/buzz-kill rule making...
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NBA Power Rankings 2011: The 7 Most Underrated Teams in the NBA
It has been said that the NBA offers the least parity of any American professional sports league. I am not here to debate that. Many of the teams on this list do not have even an outside shot of capturing the title...
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San Antonio Spurs: Are They an Overrated NBA Team?
Let’s be honest here: if the Lakers, Heat or Celtics had gone 35-6 we’d have ordered the Larry O’Brien trophy shipped to them on an express ticket — and why not? The only ...
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Pau Gasol: How Important Is His Offensive Improvement to the Los Angeles Lakers?
Many of the Lakers ' earlier struggles were due to age old issues the team has been facing for years such as age, complacency and a lack of offensive balance, or more bluntly, the ball hogging ways of Kobe Bryant ...
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Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers: How Kobe Can Instill Championship Mentality in His Team
There are no words to describe just how pathetic the Lakers ’ season has become. Oh wait, there’s “disgusting“, “underperforming“, “demoralizing“, ...
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Lakers/Heat Face Off: 6 Ways Lakers Can Emerge Victorious On Christmas Day
For the first time in three years, the L.A. Lakers will square off against the Miami Heat on Christmas Day...
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Kobe Bryant, L.A. Lakers: 8 Reasons Why They're Still Favorites Out West
We never learn. We cried that the sky was falling in 2001 when the Lakers finished with 11 fewer victories than they had finished with during their previous 67-win championship season...
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A Closer Look: Why Do We Really Hate the Miami Heat?
Politics. Unwritten rules. Customs. Those are some of my least favorite words. There’s something so presumptuous about them. In essence, they allow people to attempt to govern others lives in areas in which they have no say...
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Chicago Bulls NBA Breakdown: 7 Things We've Learned About Derrick Rose and Co.
(This is continuing a series detailing each of the 30 teams in the NBA). For the first time since John Stockton's desperation three pointer clanked off the rim in the waning seconds ...
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Miami Heat vs. Orlando Magic: Who Has the Upper Hand after their Second Matchup?
Its easy to focus on the Heat ’s 8-7 record. Most of us didn’t figure the Heat would sustain a seventh loss any earlier than picking up a 20th win...
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Los Angeles Lakers: 8 Things We've Learned about Kobe Bryant and Co. in 2010-11
(This will be the first in a series that will detail things learned about each of the NBA’s 30 teams) We’re 12 games into the season with the defending champs and, well, ...
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Carmelo Anthony Trade Rumors: 7 Reasons Melo Won't Be Traded Before Deadline
In the wake of a certain “Decision“, the basketball world has been turned upside down and NBA owners have been in a frenzy. The system in which the owners hold all the cards and make all the rules has been outright shattered...
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Miami's Vice: 10 NBA Teams Most Likely To Beat The Miami Heat
The Heat responded to their opening night’s loss to the Celtics with a resounding win over the Sixers, somewhat redeeming their disappointing start...
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Miami Heat: 4 Quick Lessons We've Learned from the First Game of the Season
Tonight saw the South Beach Superteam era start on the road against the defending Eastern Conference Champion Celtics and fall 80-88...
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Carmelo Anthony: 8 Reasons Why Lakers Should Consider Trading Andrew Bynum
Andrew Bynum has been both a source of frustration and hope for the Lakers ever since his noticeable absence in the 2008 NBA Finals contributed to the Celtics' exploitation of the Lakers' interior...
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NBA's New "Respect For The Game" Rule Threatens to Water Down Entire League
Its officially happened. The NBA has turned into a public relations campaign. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, let me fill you in: the NBA decided to implement ...
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Calling D-Wade, Not LeBron James the Heat's Best Player Is a King-Sized Fallacy
Over the span of the last three years, coaches and players alike have been asked countless times to weigh in on the endless debate of who is the best player in the league...
