Posts Tagged LA Lakers
Lakers-Spurs Collision In The West?
Less than 20 games to go before the end of the 2011 NBA regular season.
And it looks like the West, now minus Amare Stoudemire, Carlos Boozer, Deron Williams and Carmelo Anthony appear more like a playoff-ending Western Conference showdown between the reigning champions Los Angeles Lakers and the veteran squad San Antonio Spurs.
The Lakers (46-19), [...]
Will Orlando “Magic-ally” Catch Up Boston?
The Los Angeles Lakers are now one win away from their 16th NBA Finals trip in franchise history. Thanks to Ron Artest’s buzzer-beating follow up off Kobe Bryant’s missed desperation three-point attempt.
Boston is also up, 3-2 in its own Eastern Conference Finals series versus Orlando.
However, the Celtics have given the Magic an extra boost of [...]
Phoenix: Land Of The Rising Suns
Everyone, including myself, expected an LA Lakers series ending by today. In other words, it was supposed to be a sweep, given the vast talent advantage and experience the purple-and-gold squad had over the Suns.
But the Suns were scrappy, their defense, particularly the zone, providing more problems for the Lakers than they ever thought. Now, [...]
OKC Quite Okay Playing Against Lakers
The Oklahoma City (OKC) Thunder maybe a young team led by Kevin Durant and playmaker Russell Westbrook, but their youth have been the team’s edge going into the playoffs.
The Thunder like to run, thanks to second-year guard Westbrook, whose jet-like court speed has been making Lakers veteran guard look like a grand dad in the [...]
From Johnson-Bird to Bryant-James, A New Rivalry In The Making?
It’s been 30 years since Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, then wide-eyed rookies with immense potential, took the National Basketball Association to a new brand of basketball.
Johnson, a proven winner from high school to college, where his Michigan Lancers ended what could have been a perfect season for Bird and his Indiana Sycamores in the [...]