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Los Angeles Lakers: Pau Gasol is More Valuable Than You Know

Pau Gasol can be somewhat of a mystery. His skills seem very obvious on the floor, yet his value is constantly questioned. The simple question is would the Lakers be better without Pau Gasol? Pau adds…Read More

Los Angeles Lakers: High Post Pau is the Offense

Kobe’s much ballyhooed tweets had absolutely nothing to do with the Lakers 91-79 loss to San Antonio in Game 1 of their opening round series. The reason MDA rolled his eyes at the assertion that…Read More

NBA Playoffs Countdown: Lakers Get their Spurs Wish

Avoiding the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round represents a win in itself, especially without the services of Kobe Bryant to counteract the Westbrook-Durant scoring storm. The Lakers spent the…Read More

Los Angeles Lakers: Steve Blake is to Kobe Bryant as Pau Gasol is to Magic Johnson

The smart money says that the only time that you were sure the Lakers were going to make the playoffs this season was at the end of Memphis’ beat down of the Utah Jazz Wednesday night. The Lakers…Read More

Los Angeles Lakers: Lakers Team Up to Secure 7th Seed

Tensions subsided as the Memphis Grizzlies defeat of the Jazz afforded fans and Lakers alike a moment of levity before the 82nd game of a tumultuous season. Concluding a regular season at times akin to…Read More

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Lakers indefinitely lose Pau, what now?

The recent success that had the Lakers trending upwards just snowballed into another avalanche. LA…Read More

Pau Gasol’s Injury Leaves Lakers Under-manned and Undersized

Undersized is undervalued? That’s what the Lakers are hoping at least moving forward. Dwight Howard…Read More

Lakers Win on the Long and Winding Road, 111-100

Once the Lakers established their largest lead over the Timberwolves at 29 points in the 2nd quarter,…Read More

Wake Up LA, the Lakers are No Longer the Best Basketball Team in Town

Yesterday the Los Angeles Clippers won their franchise record 16th straight game. The winning streak…Read More

Lakers Blame Game Has No Winners

After another loss, this at the hands of Uncle Drew and the Cavs 100-94, Lakers fans and players are…Read More

Trades and Injuries Dominate Important Upcoming Stretch for Lakers

Sitting with a sub-.500 record, the Lakers are beginning a stretch that includes 8 of 10 games on the…Read More

Lakers’ D’Antoni Arrives with a rescripted “Showtime”

  In 1984, Axel Foley made us all believe that being a police officer in Beverly Hills was filled…Read More

Western Conference Preview: The Los Angeles Lakers—Too Big to Fail?

Yeah, I saved the Lakers for last.  They’re probably the best team in the NBA–and definitely…Read More

Bynum-for-Howard: Lakers Pull it Off

While writing my first blog of the pre-preseason, the news broke about the Dwight Howard deal. Wow. I…Read More

Dwight Howard Now A Laker, Bynum Gone

As of late Thursday night, it has finally happened! Fufilling the long time rumors, the Lakers have acquired…Read More

Top 25 in LA–#22 Pau Gasol

The Top 25 Most Important People in Sports in LA Today  –#22 Pau Gasol– Pau Gasol often…Read More

Lakers Acquire Steve Nash from Suns

In one of the more surprising deals to kick of the 2012-2013 NBA offseason, the Los Angeles Lakers have…Read More

Thunder Ends Lakers’ Misery, 106-90

The Lakers are like TNT—they know drama.  Which reminds me that the making of a basketball team and…Read More

Thunder Takes it Away From Lakers, 103-100

This is the toughest blog I’ve had to write this season. After the blowout in Game One, the Lakers…Read More

Lakers’ Foul-Shooting Beats Thunder 99-96

One thing I have learned from following the Lakers:  No other team plays with as wide a range of bad…Read More