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Los Angeles Lakers – A Team That Can’t Play Defense
Having Mike D’Antoni as a head coach has its blessings and curses, which one of them is having no defensive system whatsoever. That can be overcome with individual and athletic talent, but the old core of Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Pau Gasol and Chris Kaman isn’t likely to be very effective anyway.
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Los Angeles Lakers – A Great Franchise But a Mediocre (At Best) Team
It seems that all those Los Angeles Lakers of past and present taking personality shots at Dwight Howard, from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant, have a hard time distinguishing between a great and successful franchise, which the Los Angeles Lakers obviously are, and a great NBA team, which at the moment, and for the last couple of seasons, the Lakers clearly aren’t.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Might be Delusional About His Team
Who knew Kobe Bryant would be so fond of Twitter, or so critical towards his own team, the Los Angeles Lakers, acting like a GM-fan regarding every decision, be it Dwight Howard leaving or Metta World Peace getting the amnesty clause used on him.
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Los Angeles Lakers – NBA Offseason Winners or Losers?
It’s easy to say that the Los Angeles Lakers aren’t having the best of offseason summers, with losing Dwight Howard despite the weird sales pitch delivered by Kobe Bryant, amnestying Metta World Peace with weird timing and in general not looking like a team in great shape heading into next season.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Things Haven’t Looked This Bad in a Long Time
What are the expectations for the Los Angeles Lakers next season? Hard to say, but even if Kobe Bryant & Steve Nash are at 100% healthy, while Pau Gasol start playing like the guy from two and three years ago, just reaching the postseason should be regarded as a success.
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15 Biggest Steals in NBA Draft History
Taking a look at the greatest steals in the history of the NBA Draft in the lottery era, it’s easy to see why the San Antonio Spurs have been so successful over the years, picking and keeping two of the biggest: Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili.
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Los Angeles Lakers – What’s Next?
No matter what kind of mutterings you’ll hear, the Los Angeles Lakers failed in the 2012-2013 NBA season, barely making it into the playoffs and getting swept in the first round. Kobe Bryant will be back eventually, hopefully not too far from his ability from before the injury. The biggest decisions for the Lakers remain with re-signing Dwight Howard, keeping (or not) Mike D’Antoni while making up their minds about the future of Pau Gasol, Metta World Peace and Steve Nash.
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The Los Angeles Lakers as a Game of Thrones Like Drama
The most interesting take on this weird and probably disappointing season for the Los Angeles Lakers comes from redditor frekkld, who translated the 2012-2013 season into a synopsis of a Shakespearean tragedy, but the tales of Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard and Mike D’Antoni seems to be more fitting to the world created by GRRM in A Song of Ice and Fire, or as most people know it, Game of Thrones.
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Dwight Howard Has Missed More Free Throws This Season Than Steve Nash Has In His Entire 17 Year Career
It’s hard to say if this stats is a praise to the free throw shooting accuracy of Steve Nash, or a jab at the ability of Dwight Howard to convert his trips to the line, as the Los Angeles Lakers center has already missed more shots from the line this season than Nash has during his entire NBA career, spanning nearly 17 seasons.
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Los Angeles Lakers – An Old & Lazy Bunch of Players, Not a Team
Any time the Milwaukee Bucks really needed a shot, they got it. Larry Sanders played like an NBA All-Star with the amazing defensive duo of Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol guarding him, while the perimeter defense of Kobe Bryant, who left the arena on a crutch, helped Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis look like the best backcourt duo in the NBA