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Gather my children and you shall hear
Of the fourth quarter run of the guys in green gear
T’was on a summer’s eve in June of ‘08
In a game on TV that ended waaay too late
They tortured the Lakers and opened the door
To echo their victories from the days of yore

Yes, […]

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Phil Jackson has won nine NBA championships with the triangle offense. As Lakers fans know, Tex Winter, Jackson’s mentor and assistant coach, has developed what he calls the “sideline triangle” over six decades in coaching.
Winter has put together an immaculate system, complete with philosophy and principles, and an impressive set of skills and drills to […]

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After a game like tonight’s 97-91 loss to the Boston Celtics, after witnessing a 24-point lead gradually deteriorate into a six-point deficit, after watching the Los Angeles Lakers fall in Game 4 of the NBA Finals — a game that they, barring a heretofore unseen playoff miracle, had to win — the natural inclination is […]

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He’s staring 30 in the face.
A dozen years ago, he could not WAIT to get to pro basketball.
Screw a bunch of college, he said. I want me some pro. Today, a man in full, he stands before a Laker nation for the most important game of his career. The last time he faced these circumstances […]

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The L.A. crowd has always been laid back, but as I looked around Staples Center in the third quarter of Game 3 of the NBA Finals, I had to ask myself, “Did they pass out quaaludes as the promotional freebee tonight?”
The difference in atmosphere between Staples and Boston Garden, or just about any other NBA […]

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“Our spacing was bad.” It has become the excuse du jour of pro basketball during these play-offs.Of late, the Los Angeles Lakers have worn that phrase out. But what does it mean? For a lot of the old hands, it means simply that some guys on offense are standing too close together, which makes things […]

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If you listen closely enough you can hear it. David Stern is squirming. The NBA commissioner supposedly has a dream come true — an NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. His league has the globe’s attention in a way that it hasn’t had since Michael Jordan made a worldwide audience […]

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It’s no secret that the Los Angeles Lakers face a mismatch at small forward in their battle with the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals.
If you’re a Lakers fan, you’re also hoping to see them rebound better.
That’s why Lakers consultant Tex Winter has asked coach Phil Jackson to think about using the services of deep […]

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Author’s Introduction: Paul Pierce’s dramatic, miraculous recovery that took him from anguished pain and being carted off in a wheelchair as the Chowd Crowd fell silent, thinking the very worst …to that giddy, bounding return to the court in a matter of minutes as if nothing happened at all, is either more of that famous […]

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It was just 51 years ago that Red Auerbach opened the 1957 NBA Finals by punching St. Louis Hawks owner Ben Kerner in the mouth just before tip-off.
Auerbach, the late, great Celtics coach, once explained to me that he socked Kerner during a heated exchange over the height of the baskets in old Kiel Auditorium […]

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