The Cavaliers have been dominent at home this season, a perfect 23-0 at home and completely blowing teams out in Cleveland. But today was a different story. After beating the Celtics in Boston last Thursday night, the Lakers follow-up their big win with yet another big win…
Lakers: 40-9 (1st in West), Cleveland 39-9 (1st in East) Offensive Rating: Lakers: 114.5 (1st in league), Cleveland: 113.2 (3rd in league) Defensive Rating: Lakers: 105.7 (7th in league), Cleveland: 101.6 (2nd in league) Projected Lineups: Lakers Derek Fisher, Kobe Bryant, Luke Walton, Lamar Odom, Pau Gasol Cavaliers Mo Williams, Wally Szczerbiak, Lebron, Ben Wallace,…
This is from the February 5th game at Boston when the Lakers beat the Celtics in overtime. You can see from this picture how intense the game actually was. Kobe getting ready defensively against Paul Pierce. He actually shuts Pierce down on this play as Pierce tries to drive left and Kobe reaches in and…
BOSTON — The Lakers are spending their third consecutive night in Boston before heading over to Cleveland on Saturday, but Phil Jackson was already preparing — at least for purposes of public consumption — some notions when it comes to LeBron James. Speaking about James’ home-court advantage with the fans (and then the referees) in…
It’s raining, cloudy, windy and cold in LA, but it couldn’t be a more beautiful day. The Lakers narrowly escaped the Garden last night with an ugly win over the Celtics. There were some questionable calls, even more non-calls and a certain psychotic 7 foot power forward that fouled out before things got really interesting….
Kobe Bryant is on the front cover of ESPN The Magazine, though, it’s not what you may expect at first… ESPN: The cover boy for the issue is Kobe Bryant; while you probably knew Steve Nash was a soccer fan, you might not know that Kobe’s a big FC Barcelona backer. But he’s not the…
The Mamba has spoken… L.A. Times: “Last year they took it from us, and I’m not going to live with that,” said Bryant. “I’m not going to sit here and let this team get punked any more.”
BOSTON — As if we or those in the NBA office needed any validation of the power of Lakers-Celtics, we got it in the form of the TNT overnight ratings: The game in Boston on Thursday night was the most watched game on TNT in 13 years. It drew 4.3 million viewers, the most for any…
Can you say Dynamic Duo 2.0? Or is that 3.0? Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol scored 30 or more points in each of the Lakers past two games before Thursday, the first pair of Lakers to accomplish the feat since Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal did it April 10 and 13, 2003. But they aren’t the…
BOSTON — Phil Jackson is making a point to the Lakers that the season didn’t end a single bit with a victory in Boston. The Lakers are having a practice today — albeit a light one, I’m sure — at a health club here in Boston. Even after back-to-back games in different countries. Even after…
BOSTON — The Lakers have consistently been saying, and Lamar Odom did it again an hour and a half before the game, that redemption for last June can’t come until this June. But when Odom dropped two free throws with 16 seconds left in overtime for a 110-109 Lakers lead on Boston, something big was…
