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By J.E. Skeets As Michael Schwartz at Valley of the Suns points out, Amar'e may not even need the new viral marketing campaign, as he currently leads the Lakers' Andrew Bynum(notes) by about 150,000 votes at the "center" position after the first round of voting.

It's David vs. Goliath on Friday night as Kurt Rambis returns to Staples Center with his Minnesota Timberwolves to take on the defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers.

The two were side-by-side the last four years, Lakers Coach Phil Jackson and assistant Kurt Rambis both looking for ways along with the rest of the staff to beat an opponent.

By David Brickley TLN’s Postgame Report: Lakers vs. JazzPalestra: Lakers vs. Nuggets Postgame ReportTLN’s Game Report: Lakers vs. Jazz David Brickley and Gregory Small were in the building to cover the Lakers victory over the Jazz, and see the Lakers secure their 10th straight win. Here is their Post-game R...

Or, as Utah Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan noted Wednesday after Kobe Bryant and the Lakers extended their winning streak to 10 games, ...

Text messages from press row . . . These Lakers know how to deliver a knockout punch. . . .

By J.E. Skeets Western Conference Note: While Iverson appears among Western Conference guards on the paper ballot because he began the season with Memphis, his votes will count toward the Eastern Conference guards due to his signing with Philadelphia.

By Chris Manning As Allen Iverson kissed the floor, you can sense he was back home. He never looked right wearing that Nuggets jersey, nor the Pistons jersey and definitely not the Grizzlies jersey. Iverson is Philadelphia. Home is where you belong Iverson and you should have never been traded in the first pl...

By Bobby Roshan The Truth: A new road aheadAre the Lakers the greatest road team in history?Lakers try to maintain reserve power on road Commentators have made a huge fuss of the Lakers’ long stretch of home games and how great that must be for the Lakers.

By Kelly Dwyer Ron Artest(notes) made quick decisions, and got to the rim. Pau Gasol(notes) was everywhere. Jordan Farmar(notes) was huge in the fourth quarter with eight points. Andrew Bynum(notes) might be this game's best low-post scorer. Kobe Bryant(notes) was gorgeous to watch, gliding all over a...

WOOD-TV Grand Valley State's football team isn't missing the snow back home, but the Lakers do miss that shiny Laker Turf ... Johnson, Grand Valley State win NCAA Division II National Soccer Championship.Petoskey News-Review all 15 news articles »

By James Edwards Dallas Mavericks 102 Phoenix Suns 101 The Phoenix Suns may in the end be much luckier because after the Lakers the Pacific division is populated with the bottom dwellers of the Kings, Clippers, and Warriors. Not much competition there. Post from: NBA Obsessed

By Jeff Little Los Angeles: FS West (Joel Myers & “Hot” Rod Hundley)Utah: FSN Utah (Craig Bolerjack & Ron Boone) Radio - Los Angeles: 710 ESPN (Spero Dedes & Mychal Thompson)Utah: 1320 AM KFAN (David Locke, David James & Patrick Kinehan) Injuries - Lakers:

By noreply@blogger.com (FLCeltsFan) The Celtics last game was on Friday and the next game isn't until tomorrow. When last they played, the Celtics were on a hot streak, having won 7 in a row and swept their 4 game road trip in impressive fashion. Will the Celtics continue their win streak on Tuesday against the Bucks at home? Or, wi...

Yahoo! Sports Caron Butler had 20 points and 10 rebounds, and Earl Boykins scored 18 for the Wizards. at Lakers 108, Phoenix 88: The well-rested Lakers, playing only ... Behind the Box Score, where the glasses aren't helping, KikiYahoo! Sports all 324 news articles »

By kambrothers Plenty to cover this week... Part I: You can't crown them in the first week of December, but with Pau Gasol back on the floor, it's fair to go Modified Dennis Green when describing the Lakers, 14-3 and winners of seven straight: They are who we thought they'd be, that being a really freakin' good...

By Jaime Quintanilla Lakers named the Best Team in ESPY AwardsByron Scott sees a mature Lakers teamWestern Conference Insider: Lakers resemble ‘95-96 Bulls After the Lakers' less-than-stellar 7-3 start, the expectations surrounding this team had substantially lowered. But as they've shown in the past,...

By Jaime Quintanilla Podcast: Lakers World Order Radio – Episode #2Podcast: Lakers World Order Radio – Episode #1 w/ Kareem Abdul-JabbarPodcast: Voice of the Nation – Episode #52 w/ Special Guest Darryl Dawkins The Lakers are back on top of the NBA, and L.W.O. Radio returns with another EXCLUSIVE interview! G-...

By kambrothers Tuesday night at Staples, the Lakers beat the Knicks 100-90 in a game that generally speaking, wasn't that close. Kobe Bryant, as has become his custom, torched the visitors for 34 points on 14-20 from the floor. The box score will show a steady 17/7/4 from Ron Artest, 17/8 from Andrew Bynum,...

By J.E. Skeets Steve Bulpett, Boston Herald: "Just to be clear on this, Allen Iverson(notes) is not walking through that door. But the possibility is something the Celtics have considered — and could revisit. Danny Ainge always has been a fan of Iverson, and he tried very hard to get him here in the summer o...

By David Friedman(Doc319@yahoo.com) The DVD version of Spike Lee's documentary "Kobe Doin' Work" will be available in stores on November 24 but I can provide a sneak preview because I received a review copy recently. Lee focused more than 30 cameras on Kobe Bryant before, during and after the L.A. Lakers' 106-85 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on April 13, 2008, literally obtaining a panoramic perspective of the 2008 NBA MVP in action. I wrote a review of "Kobe Doin' Work" when the program originally aired on ESPN, so this post will focus on the DVD's special features. The DVD special feature "The Unseen Fourth Quarter" includes footage from the final stanza of the Lakers-Spurs game that was not included in the documentary broadcast. The reason that the footage is "unseen" is th...   [read the full post]

By Bobby Roshan That being said, these Lakers remind me of another Lakers team: the 2000-2001 Lakers. Shaq showed up at the beginning of the season overweight. The team seemed bored and unmotivated all season long. They struggled with injuries. They struggled with the Shaq and Kobe dispute. And then they tur...

By noreply@blogger.com (FLCeltsFan) Herald Weak effort beneath Celtics Lakers drop 2nd straight Globe Lakers hear it in loss It’s tough to defend Celtics’ play Celtics 17 Ray Allen Contributing to the Welfare of the Greater Good Celtics Hub How Does Pace Really Work?

By J.E. Skeets Jonathan Feigen, Houston Chronicle: "Rockets guard Trevor Ariza(notes) received his Lakers championship ring, along with a duplicate for his 19-month old son Tajh, from Los Angeles stars Kobe Bryant(notes) and Derek Fisher(notes) in a ceremony before Sunday night's tip-off at Sta...

Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle: "This was why Trevor Ariza came to Houston, for nights like these. It was not that he wanted to beat the Lakers, though he seemed to enjoy that as much as a very classy pregame ceremony in which Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher gave him his championship ri...

By kambrothers In this particular case, the Lakers were decidedly General Zod and the Phoenix Suns were a U.S. Government not yet in contact with Superman, who eventually discovered how to reverse the Kryptonian super-villains powers through some trickery inside the Fortress of Solitude. Do the Lakers...

By dberri Jordan Farmar [2007-08]: 0.111 WP48 What of the other players on the Lakers? PG: Derek Fisher [199 Minutes, -0.024 WP48] PF: Pau Gasol [injured] C: Andrew Bynum [200 Minutes, 0.181 WP48] PG: Jordan Farmar [199 Minutes, 0.063 WP48] SG: Sasha Vujacic [55 Minutes, 0.048 WP48]

LeBron James won't rule out playing for the Clippers or any other team.Kevin Durant missed some big shots that could have sealed a win against the Lakers, and an emerging commitment to defense played a role. Darnell Mayberry of the Oklahoman: "Although Durant wouldn’t use it as an excuse Th...

By kambrothers Ears receive the gift of manna from the heavens, because a new 710 ESPN Lakers PodKast has entered the Internet. And like them gum hawking twins, BK and I double our listener's pleasure with two installments of our voices. At no extra charge, I might add. Because we're givers. Part I -The Lakers...

By noreply@blogger.com (FLCeltsFan) Celtics 105, 76ers 74 Celtics, 105-74 CelticsBlog Philadelphia 74ers Boston Celtics Blog - A glance at the free-agent class of 2010 Boston Celtics Blog - Defense, bench, Rondo show way Live Blog: Celtics at 76ers Perkins: Bulls' Look The Same Fast break: Celtics-Sixers

By kambrothers Funsie Stuff (like our new Twitter handle, latimesKBros, and Part I and Part II of our 710 ESPN PodKast) Ball Don't Lie has some sweet pics of/details about the Lakers' 2009 championship rings. I actually watched Sasha Vujacic's bling revolve in the box, and while kinda over the top, it was...

By kambrothers Divvied up into two shorter sections. Easier for our listeners to digest. Double the clicks for the K Brothers. Everybody gets a plate of "winner winner" chicken dinner on us!* Part I Brian and I explain how Ron Artest can add versatility to the Lakers on both sides of the ball and enhance the La...

By kambrothers Last Season: 54-28, First in Northwest, Fourth in the Western Conference. Key Additions: Andre Miller, Juwan Howard Key Subtractions: Sergio Rodriguez, Channing Frye During our most recent 710 ESPN PodKast, BK and I analyzed the Western Conference with ESPN The Magazine's Chris Palm...

By dberri Although Phoenix was on top of the West, it was clear in February of 2008 that the reign of the Suns was going to soon end.  The Lakers had just traded for Pau Gasol, and this move was likely going to send the Lakers to the top of the conference.  In response to this move, the Suns sent Shawn Marion t...

By J.E. Skeets Mary Schmitt Boyer, The Plain Dealer: "Shaquille O'Neal raised a few eyebrows after practice Thursday by declaring this Cavaliers team 'the best team I've ever played on. On paper, anyway.' Some might take the 1999-2000 NBA champion Lakers with Bryant, Glen Rice, Robert Horry(notes), R...

By dberri Reviewing the Lakers PG: Derek Fisher [2.6Wins Produced, 0.051 WP48] C: Andrew Bynum [4.8 Wins Produced, 0.158 WP48] PG: Jordan Farmar [-0.9 Wins Produced, -0.035 WP48] SG: Sasha Vujacic [2.7 Wins Produced, 0.099 WP48] What About Bynum? Mathletics, Kobe, and Odom

By dberri Table One: Denver Nuggets in 2008-09 Of these ten players, eight were with the Nuggets last season.  And the new players – Afflalo and Allen – produced -0.4 wins last season.  So again, Denver’s success this season is going to depend upon the players Denver is returning.

By kambrothers ESPN.com has over the past couple of weeks published a variety of predictions and prognostications pulled together from a cast of 53 of their finest basketball minds- listen to us lament our lack of inclusion here- in preparation for the upcoming season. They were the overwhelming choice...

By dberri The Lakers in 2008-09 Derek Fisher: 2,441 min., 2.6 Wins Produced, 0.051 WP48 Andrew Bynum: 1,446 min., 4.8 Wins Produced, 0.158 WP48 Sasha Vujacic: 1,293 min., 2.7 Wins Produced, 0.099 WP48 First the Lakers: The Lakers lose… The Lakers add to their top 10…

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Kurt Helin of Forum Blue & Gold: "The question of the day is not should Phil retire - he can and should do that on his own terms - but rather what follows for the Lakers? To me, that has to start with a basic team philosophy question: Do the Lakers stay a triangle team? Or do they go to another s...

By LD2k This is interesting news. According to spanish newspaper MARCA, Jorge Garbajosa (ex-Toronto Raptors, PF) has an offer from the Lakers. However, the biggest piece of info is the talk of moving Odom or Radmanovic. If true, the Lakers are looking to make a big trade involving Rad, Odom or both:

By Crucifido Crucifido’s Corner: Lakers vs. Nuggets (Round 1 / Game 3 4/26/08) A Sharp Team-First Game Pushes The Lakers to A 3-0 Lead In came Game 3 and the Lakers looked more than ready for the challenge. The intensity the Lakers showed from the very first tip was exactly what they needed to show. Having a t...

By David Friedman Kobe Bryant passed early (six first quarter assists) and scored late (11 third quarter points) as the L.A. Lakers dismantled the Denver Nuggets 102-84 to take a 3-0 series lead. Bryant finished with game-high totals in points (22), assists (eight) and plus/minus (+21, tied with Derek Fisher) while tying for the team lead in rebounds (seven). He shot 9-19 from the field. Even more significant than Bryant's impressive numbers is the way that he controlled the game--and has controlled the entire series so far--with his scoring and passing; the Nuggets have tried several different defensive schemes but nothing they have done has stopped him individually or slowed down the Lakers collectively. Bryant simply reads the situation, shoots whe...   [read the full post]

Scouting the Lakers: The Sonics face another hot team in the Lakers. Los Angeles has won 10 of its past 11 games and is on a six-game winning streak. However, the Lakers are playing in the second of back-to-back games after defeating Memphis, 100-99, at the Staples Center on Sunday night.

Kobe was so livid after reading that, he sent a text message to coach Phil Jackson Tuesday morning, asking him to call him immediately and tell him exactly what the club said when he left the team in 2004. Jackson told Kobe that the club had said it was letting him go because it had a long-term co...

By alleyoop PREDICTION:  The Lakers will win a game at home, but the Suns will win this series rather easily in 5 games. Tags: Front Page, Big Lakers News, Bloglockers, The NBA Playoffs, Lakers, NBA, Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant, pro basketball, Phil Jackson, basketball, LA Lakers

Lakers thinking ahead to do damage in playoffs Los Angeles Times, CA - Kobe [Bryant] is the carbs. Kwame [Brown] is the parmesan cheese on top to make everything look good. I am the marinara sauce that mixes it all together ...

By Jonathan Feigen(jonathan.feigen@chron.com) This is Van Gundy's cue that if he really wants to bolt, he had done enough, and the media's cue that the locker room door is open and if it wants to get in there before players get out, it better get moving. In this case, he was concerned with Tracy McGrady having a late-night charter to Los Angel...