May 6th, 2011 
Russ Loede 
Posted in Odom Provides More Of An Offensive Threat Than Artest “I haven’t said anything about it,” “You know I’m not going to say anything about that. Why would you even ask?” – “The Zen Master”, addressing the media on who’s going to start for Artest tonight. With the Lakers facing a must-win situation down 0-2 in [...]
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Odom Set To Start Tonight For Lakers At Small Foward?
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Lethargic Lakers Collapse At Home; Shell Shocked By Mavs 93-81
Time To Put To Rest A Potential Lakers Three-Peat? Is the reign over? It might as well be. After the Lakers put up a stunning lowly 32 points in the second half, you can say the chances of bringing La La Land a possible three-peat are quickly dwindling away. With their supporters at Staples witnessing, [...]
Lakers-Mavs: A Rare Playoffs Treat
Even The Beverly Hills Cop Is Getting Excited An interesting stat came to mind as the Lakers/Mavs series is set to start. Kobe and Dirk have never played each other in the playoffs. The table below tries to find out if this quirky stat is because they just missed playing each other in some years [...]
Kobe Fails To Deliver Game Winner; Lakers Fall To Mavs In Game One 96-94
Kobe’s Final Punch Did Not Land “I’m highly concerned,” “This team can beat us. It’s clear. We just have to come in ready to play Game 2.” – Kobe Bryant Two of the NBA’s best closers playing at their best. Two teams battling in Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals. It came down [...]
Lakers Hurdle Hornets 98-80; Jump On To Meet Mavs
To Those Who Said He Lost A Step It doesn’t take a rocket science to realize the Lakers are playing like champs again. “Potential to be as good as any team I’ve coached with the Lakers.” Remember, Phil Jackson has already coached one Lakers three-peat. Consider that club a decade ago had not only Kobe, [...]
Artest’s Hard Foul Earns Him Game Three Suspension; Bynum Says Team Has “Trust Issues”
Ron-Ron Channeling His Inner-Kurt Rambis “It was uncalled for,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. Uncalled for: just like your team’s game two fight, Phil? Could it be that Artest was sending a certain team (which one?) a message; or was it just “Ron-Ron being Ron-Ron”? No matter how you slice it, there’s a good chance [...]