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Los Angeles Lakers – Finally Not Just Kobe Bryant
In an attempt to find a balanced offense, the Los Angeles Lakers began the season 0-4 on the road, with the same tune playing again: Kobe Bryant taking up the bulk of the shots and the offense, leading the NBA in scoring with 26.9 points per game so far. Maybe that trend is finally changing for the better.
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13 Most Hated NBA Players
Whether it’s by NBA fans in general or simply by other players around the league, some players are easier to hate and criticize than others, sometimes without any reason at all. Being a Lakers player makes you a prime candidate anytime – just ask Kobe Bryant, but LeBron James, Kevin Garnett and Russell Westbrook get their fair share of hatred and critique around every corner.
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6 NBA Players Teams Should use the Amnesty Clause on
With Steve Nash going to the Los Angeles Lakers and Dwight Howard wanting to create a superstar team in Brooklyn with the Nets, everyone’s criticizing the recent and latest CBA. But there’s still the amnesty clause, out to help bad GMs and teams from big and small markets alike. Elton Brand already got amnestied by the 76ers. Who’s next?
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Thunder That Good; Lakers This Bad?
No one was surprised that the Oklahoma City Thunder won Game 1, at home against the Los Angeles Lakers. But by 29 points? Without anything too special from Durant, Westbrook, Harden or anyone else? Is that really the gulf between the two teams.
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How Long Should Metta World Peace Be Suspended By the NBA?
Metta World Peace, the player formerly known as Ron Artest, is in a place he knows all too well. With everyone wanting to see him suspended for a very long time for his hit on James Harden during the Lakers’ win over the Thunder on Sunday night.
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Metta World Peace Elbows James Harden; Ejection Now, Suspension Later
Metta World Peace or the player formerly known as Ron Artest actually went back to his Artest days, branding a great game of basketball between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Oklahoma City Thunder with a disgusting and impossible to understand elbow to the head of James Harden, which took Harden out of the game and got MWP ejected to an ignorant stadngin ovation.
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A Season’s Progress of Ron Artest’s Hair (Infographic)
Is it still OK to call him Ron Artest? Or from now on until the end of time, it’s going to be Metta World Peace? Is it Mr. Peace or Mr. World Peace? Well, that’s for Play-by-Play guys and Lakers fans to worry about. Besides the name change, the most fun thing about the player formerly known as Mr. Artest is the hair.