OKLAHOMA CITY — I wrote a little bit about Kobe Bryant’s leadership for the Lakers this season in my column about LeBron James still having the edge over Bryant for the NBA MVP (I think it’s close, but I don’t think the vast majority of other voters are leaning heavily James way). Phil Jackson…
Pasadena Star News: Kobe Bryant’s scoring average is down again this season. He’s playing better than ever. Cause and effect? “Kobe’s playing as well as he did last year,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said after the team practiced Monday afternoon at Southern Nazarene University. “Most of that is simply because he’s a better leader. He’s…
One of the most obvious subplots for this year’s All-Star Game concerns the reunion for a day of Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant with Shaquille O’Neal. For quite some time, O’Neal delighted in taking veiled–and not so veiled–public potshots at his former coach and his former teammate but now every time O’Neal talks about Jackson…
He was asked about his feelings of having Shaquille O’Neal as a teammate again on the Western Conference All-Star team. The two last were teammates in 2004, when the Lakers lost in the NBA Finals to the Detroit Pistons. Soon after, O’Neal was shipped off to the Miami Heat in a trade before he was…
Now that Kobe and company have dominated the two best teams in the East, the doubters are quiet. Experts were saying that the Bynum injury might cost the Lakers the championship again this year. But this Lakers team has stepped up and showed you this is not the same team we saw get smacked around…
Shaq to L.A.? Or in LD2k terms, Hollywood Story chapter 3?!? One expert thinks so… NBC Sports: As Shaquille O’Neal last week was praising Kobe Bryant as his greatest teammate, as he was extolling the merits of Phil Jackson as sheer sideline genius, the natural inclination was to wonder where the Suns center was going…
Some of you may have seen the interview on espn.com already. In case you have not I have posted it here. Shaq sits down and has a one on one interview with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith. They discuss the upcoming All-Star game in which Shaquille O’neal will be reunited with former teammate Kobe Bryant and…
This past Sunday on ABC during halftime of the Lakers – Spurs game, ABC aired an interview between Lakers head coach Phil Jackson and ESPN/Part Lakers Owner Magic Johnson. The interview covers many important topics such as…
L.A. Times: What a weird, wacky thing the NBA schedule can be. As sure as the Lakers rushed back from a four-game, five-night trip to play the Boston Celtics on Christmas Day, they are in the midst of the NBA equivalent of a bye week, with four full days between a romp over Golden State…
This will be a long post. For those who don’t enjoy that sort of thing-BAIL NOW. For those who want to come along, get in and let’s go for a ride. In this strange, bizarro, topsy turvy Lakers season, where the Lakers sit at 21-3 yet are disappointments with so many fans, questions are being…
Slow down Chicken Little. I’m obviously referring to every Laker fan that just jumped ship 20 days into an eight month cruise. The Kings hammered the Lakers to put the breaks on an eight game skid sending fans all over LA into an apocalyptic spin declaring the season all but over. Carrying one of the…
