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The Lakers are in a three-day stretch without a game, their second such cushy period this month. There will not be another three-day break — All-Star break aside — until the second-to-last week of the regular season (April 5-7).
So we’ll all try to enjoy the down time while ...
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LOS ANGELES — The Lakers’ bench isn’t doing so great, and Phil Jackson knows it.
“We’ve got to have better than that,” Jackson said, describing his reserves right now as “just filling minutes.”
Jackson, though, had an interesting criticism ...
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I know it’s the Clippers, but they do share the same town as the Lakers, the same building and as it turns out, the owners share the same dreams. Only in the case of Clippers owner Donald Sterling, he might be a bit delusional.
Sterling said he wants to win and will pay any amount of ...
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Derek Fisher often spends extra hours after practice working with the bench players. They shoot, they run, they talk.
But are the reserves learning anything from the veteran guard? No, not by looking at recent box scores.
Sasha Vujacic and Jordan Farmar are in an offensive funk, Josh ...
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Derek Fisher
Adam Morrison
The New York Knicks have become nonsensical, their big plans for the summer of 2010 rapidly being exposed for the sham that they obviously have become.
Why would LeBron James , Dwyane Wade or Chris Bosh want to sign a long-term deal with a 3-11 team that will be fortunate to post a 12-70 ...
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LOS ANGELES — Before coming to Staples Center to lose to the Lakers, the Knicks played Boston to overtime, losing by a 107-105 count on Kevin Garnett’s buzzer-beating jumper. New York was on the second night of a back-to-back set also, which was a factor.
So the Knicks have some ...
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Staples Center
LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant says he loves Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni. Bryant is also quite fond of Knicks superfan Spike Lee, director of the movie “Kobe Doin’ Work.”
So what must Bryant treat them this way?
Probably because Bryant, who scored a game-high 34 points ...
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Kobe Bryant
LOS ANGELES — I did a stint on the Lakers’ pregame show on KSPN/710 before the Knicks-Lakers game and was pleased foremost to get through it without coughing anything up on air as my month-long cold staggers toward its end. Great success!
But I was asked a good and timely question ...
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Lamar Odom
Pau Gasol
Phil Jackson
LOS ANGELES — Phil Jackson was asked if he saw Ron Artest’s shirtless spot on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and said he hadn’t but he knew all about it.
“Yes, I’ve heard a lot of things about it,” Jackson said. “He’s very good in that type of ...
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Here’s the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” segment in its entirety from Monday night with Ron Artest largely unclad but wearing a big smile …
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As I mentioned in a tiny part of my column devoted to the awesome topic of Shannon Brown’s mighty dunking , there are other things to notice about the guy — such as how well he’s defending or his 48 percent 3-point success rate last postseason.
Here’s one more thing: ...
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TORRANCE
Pau Gasol welcomed the nearly 100 military men, women and their families to the Lakers “Season of Giving” Thanksgiving dinner Monday, expressing his thanks for their service.
“It’s great what you do for our country,” he said before serving the turkey ...
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Sitting here working on my Shannon Brown column and just finished watching Ron Artest’s spot on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
Just gets more and more interesting to have Artest in our lives. It’s great, isn’t it?
Yes, he was on there without a shirt on the whole time ...
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Lakers (10-3) vs. Knicks (3-10)
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Site: Staples Center
TV/radio: FSN; KSPN/710, KWKW/1330
How they match up:
Lakers: 101.9 points, 97 points allowed, 45.3 FG%, 73.9 FT%
Knicks: 101.4 points, 107.9 points allowed, 43.6 FG%, 79 FT%
Outlook
Kobe Bryant scored 61 points in ...
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Andrew Bynum
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Clippers
EL SEGUNDO — Kobe Bryant has a competition going with Pau Gasol over who can make more left-handed shots.
But just as Celtics-hating Lakers owner Jerry Buss would want, Bryant’s rivals for over-the-backboard shots include two Celtics: Rajon Rondo and Larry Bird. (Many others such ...
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Pau Gasol
Phil Jackson isn’t a big fan of his players competing for their countries during the summer, and some might say for good reason.
Pau Gasol, Sasha Vujacic and DJ Mbenga all suffered injuries while training for the European Championships this past summer with their respective teams.
In ...
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Shannon Brown entering the Slam Dunk contest should be, well, a slam dunk. Even Kobe Bryant is impressed with his leaping abilities. Like really impressed.
“Shannon jumps higher than me or Michael ever did,” Bryant said. “You have to ...
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LOS ANGELES — Back when it became apparent that Jerry Buss wasn’t going to Orlando for the possible Lakers clincher in the NBA Finals, I asked Lakers spokesman John Black what was up with that. Buss’ response, via Black, was meant for amusement: “It’s no fun going ...
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Orlando Hudson
LOS ANGELES — We shall see just how good Jim Buss is at what Jerry Buss has proved great at — owning the Lakers — as time goes by. But there is no question about Jim’s increasing voice in the Lakers’ decisions.
And as Jim said Sunday night, one of those was the ...
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Trevor Ariza
LOS ANGELES — When one of of the sport’s legends is around, you never know what you’re going to see.
Kobe Bryant offered a reminder of that in the first quarter of the Lakers’ 101-85 romp over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night at Staples Center.
Bryant tossed ...
