Tag: Los Angeles Lakers

  • Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Getting Closer to Playoffs

    Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Getting Closer to Playoffs

    No chance Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers reach the postseason? Well, if they keep winning the games they should (against the teams below them) and stop folding every time they face some sort of challenge, than maybe being only two games behind the Houston Rockets will be easier to bridge than what it looks like.

  • Los Angeles Lakers – Can’t Escape a Losing Record

    Los Angeles Lakers – Can’t Escape a Losing Record

    Even with Kobe Bryant playing his best basketball of the season, the Los Angeles Lakers are from over, and their attempts to make a playoff push in the final third of the NBA season keeps hitting roadblocks in the form of better teams, this time the Denver Nuggets.

  • Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Still Fueled By Anger

    Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Still Fueled By Anger

    The most important thing about getting angry as an athlete is venting it in the right direction. The Los Angeles Lakers need a focused, balanced Kobe Bryant if they’re to make it into the playoffs, which is still reachable after 3 straight wins, and an incredible individual display by a player Mark Cuban suggested the Lakers should amnesty.

  • Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant & Dwight Howard Don’t Have to Like Each Other

    Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant & Dwight Howard Don’t Have to Like Each Other

    Despite everything that’s happened, the Los Angeles Lakers are still gunning for the playoffs, not breaking up their team. For once, Kobe Bryant not thinking about passing worked well, while Dwight Howard with another impressive performance shows it was a wise choice to keep him.

  • Los Angeles Lakers – Dwight Howard Takes Advantage of Emotional Night

    Los Angeles Lakers – Dwight Howard Takes Advantage of Emotional Night

    Sports, somehow, are always filled with symbolism. So on the night the Los Angeles Lakers remembered Jerry Buss, they also had to play their historic rival, the Boston Celtics, and just so happened to get a very good game out of Dwight Howard, while all the trade talk around him just refuses to die down.

  • Celtics vs Lakers Predictions

    Celtics vs Lakers Predictions

    Somehow, the rivalry that used to be great keeps getting chances of revival through symbolic events, like the death of Jerry Buss this week, giving extra significance to the Los Angeles Lakers hosting the Boston Celtics.

  • Kobe Bryant is Still Shooting Way Too Much

    Kobe Bryant is Still Shooting Way Too Much

    How happy is Kobe Bryant right now? Probably not too much, with the whole Lakers missing the playoffs thing, not to mention the whole Dwight Howard issue – to trade or not to trade, with reports suggesting Bryant wouldn’t mind the man labeled as the future of the franchise being sent somewhere else.

  • NBA Story Lines to Follow Until the Playoffs

    NBA Story Lines to Follow Until the Playoffs

    With two months and somewhere between 30-25 games left to play for the teams, there’s plenty to look forward to in what’s left of the NBA season, including the MVP battle between Kevin Durant and LeBron James, the whole Los Angeles Lakers saga with time running against them, who emerges from the East to challenge the Miami Heat and more.

  • Los Angeles Lakers – Death of a Legendary Owner

    Los Angeles Lakers – Death of a Legendary Owner

    It was 34 years ago that Jerry Buss purchased the Los Angeles Lakers (among other things) and their Arena, the Forum, for a sum of $67.5 million. After 10 NBA titles under his reign and bringing the franchise to a value of over $1 billion, Dr. Jerry Buss passed away at the age of 79.

  • Los Angeles Clippers – Showing Who is the Boss in Town

    Los Angeles Clippers – Showing Who is the Boss in Town

    After beating the Los Angeles Lakers three times this season, the Los Angeles Clippers are headed towards a lot of firsts in their franchise history, but the most important thing is that Chris Paul and Blake Griffin now control the NBA scene of the town, while the crumbling, shiny project from across the street is going down with the Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard relationship.