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LET'S GO BRUINS!
Tough game today but thanks UCLA for extending our saturday games to the Max for the third straight year!
Ucla
WTF is Howland doing? He keeps taking Love out for these 30 second intervals and putting that worthless stiff Keefe in which lets Memphis push the lead out further. He needs to shorten those rotations in the 2nd half.
UCLA has no offense when Keefe and Matta-Real are in the game together.
this thread was falling off too far............
bruins =
Seems Like old times again. Los Angeles Lakers vs. San Antonio Spurs! Should be a great game and I'm hoping for a Lakers victory!
Another BIG game in the City!to another great basketball season in LA.
(Spurs minus - Manu) < lakers
It's still the regular season. The Spurs don't have to prove anything to anyone. Not the Lakers, not the Suns, not the Hornets, not the Mavs, not the Jazz. And they sure as don't have to prove anything to some ing dumbass on messageboard. They are the Spurs, and if anyone has to prove anything to anyone, it's everyone besides the Spurs. ing Idiot.
Sporks - Manu < Lakers - Bynum(Spurs minus - Manu) < lakers
Healthy Sporks < Healthy Lakers
fixed it for yaSporks - Manu < Lakers - Bynum
Healthy Sporks = Healthy Lakers
Well, if you guys make it to the Finals and we don't, please destroy the ing Celtics for us, will ya? Thanks!
Another BIG game in the City!
T.J. Simers:
These Lakers made some pretty valuable moves too
Bryant was great, as expected, but give a lot of the team's credit to Buss, Kupchak and Jackson.
April 16 2008
KobeBryant does not deserve the MVP award this season.
He deserves to get it every year.
He's the best player in the game, and because there is no provision for marking him down for being a baby off the court at times, he should already have a trophy case filled with MVP awards.
The argument this year waged by some that he has become more of a team player or done something different to really earn the reward is ridiculous.
In the past, he has had spurts where he has been the team player, spurts where he has tried to do it all, and spurts where he has pouted.
Same thing happened this season, Phil Jackson maybe a little better now on how he handles Kobe's spurts.
Bryant is the most valuable player in the NBA, all right, the sport at its exciting best whenever he is on the court. If David Stern could arrange it, he would have Kobe playing every playoff game to the very last possible date for the NBA this June.
The NBA has a number of great players, such as Chris Paul, but with Bryant, like Michael Jordan,there is always the chance we will be watching something we might never see again.
The notion, though, that he wants a championship ring more than everyone else is also ridiculous.
He's just better than everyone else, his compe ive drive usually resulting in success, while others who might compete with just as much heart and soul lack the overall Bryant talent.
That's what makes Bryant the obvious choice for MVP every year, because he has such talent and delivers so often.
But as for the MVP, or Most Valuable Performer in the NBA this season, if there were such an honor it should go to Jerry Buss, Mitch Kupchak and Jackson.
Bryant called Buss an "idiot," and once again Buss responded by proving he is one of the best owners in sports, which sometimes means doing nothing.
Buss has always liked Bryant's game, but Bryant called him out last summer, suggesting Buss was as much an idiot as a liar for not surrounding him with better players as promised, giving the owner every reason to react, or even overreact.
The owner added a DUI to his resume, criticism mounting that the Lakers under Buss had lost it, or so most folks were thinking just 11 months ago.
As a result, the pressure was really on Kupchak, most everyone in these parts wondering why he still had a job and looking for someone to take a fall -- if only to appease Bryant, or make room for the return of Jerry West.
How many folks out there thought West was the only answer to put the Lakers back on track? Come on, Kobe, raise your hand.
Instead, Buss replied by throwing his complete support behind Kupchak -- Kupchak responding to the turmoil as he does everything, calmly stating and restating the Lakers' plans for long-term success. You kind of get the idea that Kupchak's idea of a rip-roaring time is to stand up, but very slowly.
An irritated Bryant, meanwhile, was caught on video saying he couldn't understand why Kupchak had refused to trade Andrew Bynum for Jason Kidd when he had the chance. How's that working out for Dallas?
He also didn't seem too pleased with the idea that the Lakers were going to go into this season with Bynum still on the roster -- when Bynum could have been used to acquire someone so much more advanced in his career.
Kupchak, steady as always, explored all possibilities but remained convinced that Bynum would become a valuable contributor to the Lakers at some point.
But around here it really didn't matter what Kupchak thought, most fans treating him like a Dodgers general manager and blaming him for trading away Shaq, getting so little in return, and later acquiring Kwame Brown.
Kupchak took a public beating but went to work, doing what he said he would do all along to improve the Lakers, while everyone else wondered whether Bryant would show up for the opening of training camp.
Kupchak secured the services of Derek Fisher, a lucky break, but the good teams are lucky like that. He sent Brian Cook and Maurice Evans to Orlando for Trevor Ariza -- initially drawing a collective yawn from Lakers fans.
He swiped Pau Gasol from Memphis, and although many Bryant supporters remain convinced none of this would have happened had Bryant not thrown his tantrum, they haven't been paying attention.
Kupchak was determined to improve the Lakers before Bryant's outburst, but with the proviso he would do it in the best interests of the Lakers, and not just in the best interests of Bryant.
It might explain why Buss has never wavered in his support of Kupchak.
Then there's Jackson, the Zen paying off last summer, and Bryant finding an ally in an author who had previously trashed him for his petulant behavior. If Phil and Kobe can be friends, then maybe Page 2 and, well, never mind.
Jackson was brilliant last summer, taking the edge off Bryant's tantrum and saying all the right things to his star player. Can't wait to read his next book, though.
At the same time, whether it was Jackson, his assistant coaches or the passage of time, Bynum and the Lakers' supporting cast reported to work much improved.
Forced to compliment Bynum, it took some of the steam out of Bryant's argument that the Lakers were no longer championship-worthy.
In hindsight, every team should have an owner, general manager and head coach responding to controversy and franchise chaos as Buss, Kupchak and Jackson did.
And so when Bryant is named MVP, as he should be this season and every season, it would be nice if he thanked the Lakers brass for hanging in there with him when he was stomping his feet and looking to move to Chicago.
It would also be a good time to announce publicly he no longer is a baby, no longer wishes to be traded and has no interest in terminating his contract a year from now -- because he just can't imagine playing for anyone other than Buss, Kupchak and Jackson.
T.J. Simers can be reached at
T.J. Simers...boy, that takes me back. Anybody know where to find the video clip the LA Times had of him predicting the '04 finals? (praying the Lakers would phone a couple of games in so they'd have the victory celebration at home...) Funny stuff. Wish I'd have saved it.
I hope the Fakers lose to the Nuggets or Mavs in the first round. What a bunch of pampered crybabies.
Have fun getting bounced in the first round, yet again.
Things would have been alot different with Yao.
hey hey hey....Phil just said that his vote for Coach of the year is Adelman
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Lakers will go, Fo, Fo, Fo on their way to the finals!
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Another Great day in the Basketball capital of the World. Damn, Life is Good!
homer post from a homer writer
What a beautiful day in LA!
What a beautiful day in LA!
A Good Not Great Win But Rather Be Up 1-0 Than Down ...
That was classic I had just moved out here the year before. I have never laughed so hard as seeing all those laker fans take their gay car flags off.
My favorite was NBA TV'S own Fred Carter ( The Pistons can't score Lakers in Four)
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