2009-10 Regular Season: 57-25 2009-10 Playoffs: #1 seed; defeated the Boston Celtics in seven games to win the NBA championship Additions: Matt Barnes, Steve Blake, Devin Ebanks, Derrick Caracter, Theo Ratliff Key Losses: Jordan Farmar, Josh Powell Projected Rotation Players: ... (Continue reading)
After writing an 8,600-word opus highlighting the historical greatness of the NBA’s most successful franchise, what’s a writer to do? I’ll tell you- you go back to the well! In writing the last of my 29 “NBA All-Time Starting Fives” ... (Continue reading)
Rather simply waxing poetic about my team, I will validate the claim that the Minneapolis- Los Angeles Lakers are the greatest franchise in the history of the NBA, and perhaps all of professional sports. In 62 seasons, the Lakers have ... (Continue reading)
Los Angeles is home to two NBA teams, but it would be sacrilegious to suggest that they share the city. This ain’t Mets-Yankees. It’s not even Knicks Nets. Growing up in Los Angeles, my first memory of the Clippers is ... (Continue reading)
With all due respect to Dwight Howard, Andrew Bynum is the most skilled pure center in the NBA. It’s now time for him to take that next step. If the Lakers are going to complete the fourth three-peat of Phil Jackson’s ... (Continue reading)
To explore the history of the Warriors franchise is to explore the history of professional basketball. From their inception in 1946 as the Philadelphia Warriors in the Basketball Association of America (which became the NBA in 1949) to the disjointed ... (Continue reading)
Early yesterday afternoon, CNBC reported that Joe Lacob, managing partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins (early investors in Google in addition to over 150 companies that have gone public), and Peter Guber, chairman of Mandalay Entertainment, will purchase the ... (Continue reading)