Lakers Owner Jerry Buss Dead At 80
Longtime Lakers owner Jerry Buss, the man who presided over the most successful tenure of an NBA franchise post ABA merger has died. He was 80. Buss was the figurehead of the Los Angeles Lakers and since assuming ownership from Jack Kent Cooke for $67.5 million, the Lakers won 10 NBA titles, rebranded Los Angeles [...]
Kobe Bryant Dunked On The Entire Borough Of Brooklyn
Here you see Gerald Wallace. Here you also see Kris Humphries. But then you see the Black Mamba slither through both of them to throw down a one-hand tomahawk dunk that reminds you that yes, German engineering in legs does indeed work and once more – the Lakers should be feared when they only have [...]
Kobe Gets The Poster But The Clippers Take LA, 107-102
The Battle for Los Angeles took place once more inside of the house that Shaq & Kobe built last night. All season long the NBA has had to deal with the Clippers, not the star-studded Lakers as a team that may possibly hoist the Larry O’Brien trophy up in June and last night proved no [...]
The Best #LakersNation Reactions To Mike D’Antoni Being The New Lakers Coach
If you’re waking up this morning and haven’t checked ESPN – I’ll save you the trouble. Phil Jackson, “Zen Master” and owner of 11 championship rings, is not the Lakers head coach. Instead in the middle of the night, the Lakers decided to hire former Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks head coach Mike D’Antoni [...]
The Best #LakerNation Reactions To The Dwight Howard Trade
If you woke up this morning and your routine watching of Sportscenter made you drop your breakfast, don’t worry, this was our reaction to the Dwight Howard trade when it broke last night. Not only did Mitch Kupchak call the “Summer Of ’96″ play from Jerry West’s GM playbook in landing Dwight Howard, he kept [...]
Done Deal: Howard Traded To Lakers
After months of speculation and tendencies that made LeBron’s “Decision” look like choosing between a Big Mac & a Whopper, Dwight Howard’s “trade me” saga has finally come to a conclusion – with the above photoshopped image soon to become a reality. In a four-team deal according to ESPN, Orando shipped off the league’s best [...]
Steve Nash Is A Laker Now
Two future Hall of Famers from the 1996 Draft Class just became teammates. In a move that probably has sent your favorite Laker fan into a high for the past two hours, the Los Angeles Lakers essentially traded pennies on the dollar (future draft picks in 2013 & 2015) to Phoenix for two-time league MVP [...]
5.23 The Intro
Carolina Catalino | @CarolinaCatalin D’Angelo Gives GQ Magazine First Interview In A Dozen Years [GQ] Terrence J & Rocsi To Leave BET’s ’106 & Park’ [Necole Bitchie] Pete Rock & Lupe Fiasco Reconcile [Rap Radar] Kobe Bryant, The Lakers And The $58 Million Question: What’s Next? [TSS] Stephen A. Smith Just Realized What’s So Funny [...]
Kevin Durant Has Earned That Bad MF’er Wallet
Remember how we all said Vince Young should have won the Heisman after the Rose Bowl game in 2005? Well, Kevin Durant is starting to make that case known after coming up big (yet again) against the Lakers in Game 4 of their West Semifinal matchup. More and more, Durant has the look of someone [...]
Could The Lakers Actually Lose Game 7?
On Twitter last night, one of Eddie Maisonet, III’s followers broke down the levels of grief for a Los Angeles Lakers fan. Of course they ran the gamut from blaming players to bringing up the 16 banners hanging in Staples Center but Game 6 in Denver told us plenty and left open a treasure chest [...]
