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First of all: Circumstances scuttled my scheduled recap after Game 2 of the Utah/LA series and for this I apologize greatly, especially because I promised the world a challenge between points by Kobe Bryant vs. ads for shows produced by Ted Turner. The problem? It’s finals week here in scenic Watts (that’s where USC is, […]

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That’s right, it’s the long-awaited matchup of the teams with the two most inappropriate names in all of sport! I was too depressed by the Hawks-Celtics game to keep actual notes on this one, but here are my recap points in no particular order:
I submit Kobe Bryant (obviously) and Deron Williams as the two players […]

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Well, when I published “Mamba Valuable Player, Part 1,” you may have been led to believe that more parts were to follow. Well, here are those more parts. There are three serious candidates. Each of them merits a separate superlative.
Without further ado:
Who Has Been the NBA’s Best Player This Season?
Answer: LeBron James. (Kobe fans: […]

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When I was touring USC last fall, the only other family in our tour group was a local Los Angeles family. My dad and I had exactly one exchange with these people:
Mom of Family: Where are you guys from?
My dad: San Francisco area.
Mom: Well, if you guys are from ‘Frisco, why don’t you just go […]

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So I’m working on a massive treatise about trying to sort out the MVP race this year (Part I here), and it’s a pain in my ass. I’m up all night, spending hours going through game logs, video, and every imaginable kind of statistical information available to come up with some kind of objective way […]

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It’s officially open MVP season. My spiritual take on the issue is on FreeDarko. Here are what I see as the immutable truths of the award:
1. If the vote was held today, Kobe Bryant would, and should, win by a fairly wide margin.
2. The only other real contenders are LeBron James and Chris Paul, although […]

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It’s been mentioned once or twice that the NBA West is pretty good this year. All nine potential playoff teams have at least some chance to win the whole thing, but almost all of them have some flaw that makes their defeat possible, even in the first round.
San Antonio? Too old. New Orleans? […]

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Ugh. It’s been a long day at USC. Here’s one Trojan’s account of how it all went down at the Galen Center Sunday night:
Pregame
-USC is not a basketball school, so there’s almost never a scrum to get into the building and get your seat the way there is outside of the Coliseum. […]

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In one of the craziest trade weeks of all time- I’m talkin’ ever- the Lakers and Heat emerged as the big, big, big, big, big winners, netting all-star power forwards for Kwame Brown and Shaq’s corpse. Sunday, they went against each other on national television.
First, my five favorite things about the Gasol trade:
1. Deal forgiveness. […]

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It’s hard to focus on college basketball here in LA since Mitch Kupchak went ahead and flipped the pool Friday. (Quick thoughts: Yep, it’s a huge steal. The two things you worry about when your team acquires a superstar is a drop in scoring efficiency and defense, but Pau scores efficiently and his defensive numbers […]

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