16 Championships. 31 NBA Finals appearances. 8 regular season and 12 Finals MVPs. 21 members of the Hall of Fame. A 440-293 all time record in the playoffs...
Jonathan Cha
About Jonathan Cha
I write and teach upon occasion. Basketball fan since Chick Hearn spoke on it through a crackling mono radio speaker.
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Kobe drains another in a long line of unbelievable, turning in midair, dagger three-pointers to drag the Lakers back within one. Kyle Korver misses the fro...
As the Lakers trudged into the locker room at halftime after surrendering 67 points to the Hornets, a team that only averages 94 points per game, the impac...
78 points in the paint leaps out off of the stat sheet and into the upper stratosphere from the Lakers 118-109 loss to the Denver Nuggets. A jaw-dropping s...
The ubiquitous and seemingly insurmountable 3.5 games between the Lakers and the 8th seed in the playoffs now stands at 2.5, thanks to a second-straight ou...
Los Angeles sits an arm’s length from the post season. Three and a half games represent the barrier between the NBA Playoffs and a first round matchup wi...
The obvious answer is LeBron James and Dwayne Wade. LBJ hit from all over the court for 32 points on 12-18 shooting. DWade equaled his teammate in both arr...