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Who scripted the NBA Finals, Ashton Kutcher?
The Lakers got Punk’d.
The national columnists can rhapsodize all they like about Boston’s defense and the new chic Boston Three Party; they can say, see, we told you, Paul Pierce IS The Truth, but they’re just wasting column inches and killing perfectly good trees.
The real story of the bicoastal, […]

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It was competitive until the 7:13 mark of the second quarter.  That’s when James Posey and Eddie House hit back-to-back triples within 28 seconds, turning a three point Boston lead into a nine point cushion and setting the stage for what would be a 26-6 run to end the second quarter.  Fair to say that […]

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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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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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Yes, Laker fans, you’re right and I feel your pain. 38 to 10 is stupid, ridiculous for any game in the Finals. That’s not a free-throw discrepancy, it’s Watergate in sneakers. The whole thing smelled funny to me, like the refs were Haldeman, Erlichmann and G. Gordon Liddy. I knew something was up when Woodward […]

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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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Thursday night’s 98-88 Game 1 loss to the Celtics in the NBA Finals wasn’t necessarily a disaster for the Lakers.  On the one hand, they were able to hang with Boston deep into the fourth quarter on their floor in front of fans understandably jacked by the team’s first Finals appearance in about a billion […]

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