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Those of you looking for an emotional buoy heading into tonight’s critical Game 5 of the Western Conference semi-final between the Lakers and Jazz might want to take a peek at this little number from ESPN.com’s John Hollinger, who runs the numbers and points out that despite losing Games 3 and 4 in Salt Lake […]

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Capping off an MVP and first team All-NBA season, Kobe racked another honor today, getting named for the eighth time in his career to the All-Defensive squad.  His sixth time as a first teamer joins him with Bruce Bowen, Marcus Camby, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett.  Derek Fisher also got a little love with one first […]

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It’s been a pretty good Western Conference semifinals thus far, though — and I know Utah fans will disagree — it seems like the Lakers are really losing games more than the Jazz are winning them. Give Utah credit, they’ve tied things up, but I have yet to feel like the Jazz can actually win […]

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Kobe, you’re so vain, I bet you think this song is about you.
Well it is.
If you don’t count the cartoonish Vic the Brick, as those of you who read columns on this website know quite well, there are few greater admirers of Number 24 than yours truly. But here it is, Mr. MVP, straight […]

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They couldn’t go 16-0 in the postseason, could they? With that sort of defeatist attitude, maybe not. Either way, the Lakers finally hit a bump on what has been a surprisingly smooth road towards the NBA Finals, losing Friday night in 104-99. Not a huge setback for the purple and gold- seriously, […]

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The Lakers stomped their way through Games 1 and 2 at Staples, building big leads on the Jazz and only briefly flirting with giving them away before putting both on ice down the stretch. Short of the ballyhooed rebounding differential in Game 1, the Lakers have dominated just about every aspect of the […]

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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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The 18,977 fans who packed Staples Center Wednesday night witnessed a coronation.  The Master of Ceremonies, Mr. David J. Stern.
It was a declaration of a new king in the NBA.
 
This season, the building has experienced so many different feels, from the boos Kobe heard to start the year to the excitement around Andrew Bynum to the […]

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UPDATE (2:45 pm): New insight added from our friends at My Utah Jazz (www.myutahjazz.blogspot.com) on three ways to beat, and lose to, the Jazz.
The Lakers took Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals Sunday at Staples in relatively fine fashion, building a big lead in the second quarter and playing well enough to hold off a game […]

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Like other Los Angeles-based media organizations, we here at SportsHubLA congratulate the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant on winning his first NBA Most Valuable Player award.
As you might imagine, Kobe has been the subject of many a column here on the Hub over the past season, and number of those columns generated some serious debate.
So on the […]

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