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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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Throughout the playoffs, to get a little insight into playoff opponents for the Lakers, we’ve hit up bloggers who have spent the season writing about the team. For the Finals, we talked to Jim at Green Bandwagon to get some insight into the Celtics, specifically three ways to beat them, and three ways to […]

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Their jet was sitting on the runway Tuesday afternoon while the Los Angeles Lakers ran through one last practice at their gym in El Segundo, and they still hadn’t figured just how they were going to match up against the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals.  You might think that Boston’s Big Three of Kevin […]

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Did you get the memo?  It’s Lakers vs. Celtics for the 2008 NBA title. For the 11th time.  Purple and gold vs green and white.  The old schooliest of old school rivalries.  The Big Three vs…. what exactly do you call Kobe, Pau, LO, and the rest of those guys?  However you slice it, there’s […]

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After Thursday night’s closeout win over the Spurs, when Mitch Kupchak accepted the trophy as champion of the Western Conference from the hands of Jerry West, there was a sense of relief.  As Kupchak lifted the trophy above his head, the burden had been lifted. He, for perhaps the first time since West handed him […]

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I don’t have to turn on the three or four letter cable networks today to know they they’re all still blabbing and babbling about the end of Game 4…Lakers up two, Derek Fisher fouling Brent Barry but Joey Crawford manning up with the non-call.
Now I’ll tell you why an old-school ref like Joey Crawford did […]

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I’m not normally one to make predictions, yet for some reason, against my normally reliable judgment — lingering mental effects of the holiday weekend, perhaps — I feel like calling my shot for Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals.
I’ve got a 50/50 chance of being right, don’t I? (Not if you take the […]

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If Massachusetts is a key state in the upcoming fall presidential campaign and Barack Obama is looking to make an impression, he might think about putting Ray Allen on the ticket.
Seriously.
I made a visit to Boston last week to catch Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals, and the big impression was just how much […]

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Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals didn’t exactly play out the way many had expected.  No offense early from Kobe, no offense period from Manu Ginobili.  The Lakers didn’t score much generally, and saw San Antonio build out a 20 point lead in the third quarter, despite having just capped off a grueling seven […]

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A whole first half and one bucket for Kobe.
 
Fish, nada.  No points at all.
 
Lamar, stuck behind the 8-ball, just 8 points.
 
Lakers, a very un-Laker like 89 total.
 
Plus they fall behind by 20 and STILL win?
 
As my former fantasy girlfriend Kelly LeBrock was just whispering softly in my ear, that’s a lot of Weird Science.
And for […]

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