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General / Apr 10, 2008 / 3:56 pm

Get Off the Pot

Sebastian Telfair (adidas)
No, this is not an open plea to Keon Clark…but it does relate to Keon in a way.
With the NBA Draft coming up, college underclassmen are declaring left and right (O.J. Mayo and Eric Gordon being the headliners so far) and international prospects will soon become part of water-cooler Draft talk. From now […]

General / Feb 12, 2008 / 2:07 pm

The Genius of Chris Wallace

Memphis GM Chris Wallace is the mastermind behind the deal that shipped Pau Gasol to L.A. in exchange for Kwame Brown and Javaris Crittenton. He’s also the one who asked for his critics to step forward and go on the record. That plea resulted in Gregg Popovich’s infuriated rant, in which he begged for the […]

Hoopla / Feb 5, 2008 / 10:44 am

Pau and the Triangle

SportsHubLA’s Roland Lazenby got up with Tex Winter to for an interesting piece on how Pau Gasol (who is reportedly starting at center tonight) will fit into the Lakers’ triangle offense.
The second half of the article focuses on Lamar Odom, Winters’ criticism of him, and the “cruel trick” God played on Kwame Brown:
Winter does […]

Fantasy Doctor / Feb 1, 2008 / 3:45 pm

Fantasy Implications of the Gasol Trade

Th Fantasy Doctor is on it … here are the fantasy winners of the trade…
Rudy Gay - The biggest winner wasn’t even involved in the deal. The big fantasy winner from this whole thing is Rudy Gay (or should I say Rudy Gay owners). Gay’s numbers without Gasol have been filthy and the team has […]

Smack / Jan 30, 2008 / 5:33 am

The Others

Lamar Odom (Photo. Tim Tadder)
Forget the 15-game losing streak. Forget the 0-5 start to the season. Forget the times when D-Wade and Shaq were out and the team was rolling out D-League lineups. With all that’s gone wrong for the Miami Heat in ‘07-08, yesterday’s drubbing at the hands of the Celtics was the low […]

General / Jan 18, 2008 / 1:37 pm

In Defense of Kwame

Last night’s Lakers/Suns game was marked by the awful performance of one Kwame Brown. After putting up a 10-point, 10-rebound stat line against my Sonics earlier in the week, Kwame’s second game as L.A.’s temp fill-in for Andrew Bynum was a disaster.
From the L.A. Daily News:
Kwame Brown, serving as Bynum’s replacement for the second game, […]

Smack / Jan 18, 2008 / 4:18 am

What Does It All Mean?

Photo. Mannion
Cleveland’s perfect record against the Spurs last regular season meant nothing when the Cavs were getting cracked in the Finals, so presumably that means last night’s win over the defending champs didn’t mean anything, either. Right? Or you could say that last night, at least we saw the Cavs’ role players getting the job […]

Smack / Jan 15, 2008 / 5:38 am

Who Do I Trust? Me!

Photo. Mannion
How would the Lakers adjust to life without Andrew Bynum? Playing a Sonics team against which he usually drops plenteous buckets, Kobe Bryant decided to go into Tony Montana mode (“Who put this $*** together? Me, that’s who!”) and had his eyes locked onto the rim — on his first 10 touches he shot […]

Smack / Jan 14, 2008 / 5:26 am

This Can’t Be Life

Jamal Crawford (Photo. Stephen Hill)
Where the hell did that come from? If you had seen the Knicks’ previous game — Friday night’s loss to the Raptors where they got mercilessly gutted by Chris Bosh — and been reading the NY papers, it would appear as if everything was perilously close to completely falling apart: Zach […]

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