Archive for January, 2009
This is as retarded as it gets
This was emailed to me by a friend today. It came from TheLakersNation.com
This isn’t a joke. The NBA is actually selling green Lakers shirts. Why? You’re guess is as good as mine. If that isn’t enough, the shirts have a clover on the side. We here at TLN say NO to the green shirt.
Apparently, Stern has completely forgotten about the Lakers and Celtics rivalry. Everyone please please please boycott this shirt. Any Lakers fan wearing this shirt deserves a beat down.
Just found this on Ball Don’t Lie:
It’s absolutely ridiculously awesome. I’ve seen this move on NBA Ballers video games and crap, but I didn’t anyone would manage to get this to work in a real game. Check it.
Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt your regularly scheduled NBA programming to bring you this breaking YouTube clip that is of the utmost basketball importance. (Slight exaggeration.) Via With Leather, here’s video of Ike Nwamu and Deuce Bello of Westchester Country Day School pulling off a designed double alley-oop in a recent high school game. It’s ridiculous.
Believe it or not, that is exactly the type of basketball-meets-volleyball play we’re going to start see popping up in NBA playbooks, practices and games. Why? Because for far too long, the alley-oop has been an underutilized offensive weapon. As Shoals so perfectly puts it: “If you accept the alley-oop as more like the pick-and-roll than the windmill, all sorts of perceptual doors begin to loosen. Remember McGrady’s off-the-backboard self-oop? Why not use the backboard as a second floor, thus adding another (fourth?) dimension to the game. It sounds fancy and frivolous, but again, we’re talking set plays …” Hear, hear! Unleash the oop!
I’m sitting here on my couch watching this game and I’m just too damn excited about the game that Andrew Bynum is having against the Clippers. 6 minutes left in the 3rd and he already has 31 pts, 12 rebounds, and 2 blocks. Career night for the young kid out of Jersey.
This is the Andrew Bynum all Lakers fans have been waiting to see. Alright, a correction to his point total. He’s at 33 with an And-1 coming, which he hits for 34. The kid has almost half of the team’s point total tonight. This is the game the front office was waiting for when they rejected the trade from Jersey for Jason Kidd.
New point total after he sprints down the court on a fast break and gets the dump pass from Kobe. He makes a soft finger role for his 36th point of the night. I wouldn’t expect this type of game every night, but 20-10 is not out of reach for this guy.
His help defense still leaves something to be desired, but you can’t complain when he has 3 blocks already at this point in the game. Lakers center of the future looks like he’s finally arrived!
Damn it’s good to be a Lakers fan.
From Ball Don’t Lie:
LeBron James to appear on GQ cover. LeBron James to win MVP. LeBron James to win Super Bowl MVP. LeBron James to become President. LeBron James to produce gnarly metal. LeBron James to give your daughter away. LeBron James to kill Chuck Norris. LeBron James, LeBron James, LeBron James.
It’s enough to drive a sane person crazy, but still, nice shot.
LeBron James.
Found from OC Register (from a few days ago):
Powell has more than game on his mind
January 6th, 2009 posted by JANIS CARR, OCREGISTER.COM
Josh Powell’s infant daughter was hospitalized with RSV, a common virus that causes mild-cold-like symptoms in adults and children but can be serious in infants.
Hayden Powell was born Dec. 23 in New Orleans, which happened to coincide with the Lakers game there. Josh Powell said she is improving, but it’s still touch-and-go.
“She’s taking it one day at a time,” Powell said.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of respiratory illness in young children and can cause infection of the lungs and breathing passages. An estimated 125,000 infants in the United States are hospitalized each year.
Let’s hope his daughter gets through this soon. Best wishes, Josh.
Last year it was Andrew Bynum and Trevor Ariza going down later in the season with serious injuries. This year we’ve got Farmar going down for about another month, injury-prone Luke Walton out for at least 2 weeks (although I’m figuring that it’ll be at least a month based on his injury history), and then you have Lamar Odom going down last night with a hyperextended knee.
Not a good sign heading into the second half of the season. At least the Lakers secured the best record in the league prior to Odom going down. With Farmar and Luke on the bench, the Lakers should have been able to hold up perfectly fine. But Odom is a whole different animal. He was the leader of the Bench Mob. He was the facilitator when he would take over for Andrew Bynum.
Hopefully he’ll only be out a game or two, but that’s doubtful from the looks of the injury. I guess I got my wish when I asked for Josh Powell to get more time, but for sure I didn’t want these circumstances. Here’s to hoping all the injured players in the league, not just the Lakers, get healthy soon and avoid injury for the rest of the year.
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