The NBA playoffs have featured excellent basketball as players who have been on the rise as stars in the league have battled to grab the spotlight. Read more…
Tag: celticslakers rivalry
Lakers roll dice with A.D.’s career for LeBron’s legacy
Shame on the Los Angeles Lakers. Read more…
LeBron’s gone, and the NBA did him no favors with short offseason
I grew up in Chicago, which means I grew up in a basketball atmosphere that was convinced the league was always rigging things for the Knicks. Even though the Bulls would go on to win six titles — beating the Knicks along the way for most of them — Bulls fans were always insistent that […]
HEAR ME OUT: The Lakers need to sit Anthony Davis tonight
Anthony Davis should NOT play in the Los Angeles Lakers’ biggest game of the season. Read more…
It’s been a tale of two brows lately, and that’s not good enough for Showtime
If the Los Angeles Lakers are going to have any chance at repeating as NBA Champions, they can’t have Anthony Davis finishing games with Andrea Bargnani stat lines. Read more…
‘Smacked in the mouth,’ LeBron and AD now need to find second gear — if bodies let them
LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers looked sluggish and shell-shocked on Sunday. In their first-round matchup against the Phoenix Suns, after squeaking past the Golden State Warriors in the Play-In Tournament, the defending champs looked anything but title-contending. Read more…
Hey Silver, stop tinkering with the NBA. You’re welcome
The NBA is lost. Read more…
Hey Adam Silver, stop tinkering with the NBA. You’re welcome
The NBA is lost. Read more…
Warriors-Lakers shows just how much fans miss Warriors-Cavs
The NBA’s first-ever play-in tournament starts tomorrow — eight teams, six games, four playoff spots up for grabs. But if you turned on SportsCenter at any point in the last two days, you’d think only one game was happening tomorrow — Warriors at Lakers. Read more…
Don’t expect the upcoming Lakers docuseries to be the next Last Dance
2022 will be the “Year of the Lakers.” Not on the court, necessarily, but definitely on our television screens. Read more…