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Can we please stop with the minute by minute LeBron James & Company free agency talk? Enough Already! Let me break it to everyone in the simplest of terms: It doesn’t matter where LeBron lands nor who comes with him. Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers are still the best team in the NBA, and they're the one to beat next season. To paraphrase one of the best sports quotes ever ...

  Can we please give all the Lamar Odom being the key to a Lakers’ victory a rest? I mean, really, Lamar is a great player but come on. We’re talking about a guy coming off the bench, even if he basically gets starter minutes over the course of a game.   It really is amazing to me that everyone links Lamar to a repeat, like this one player, on a team of ...

Monday night, the Black Mamba, Kobe Bryant, led the Los Angeles Lakers in the Game One demolition of the Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference Finals by scoring 40 points and controlling the entire game.   Phoenix had no answer.     While everyone focused the week leading up to the game on the condition of Kobe’s knee, it is another injury that has plagued him all season and is almost mind-boggling that ...

When you've won as many championships as the Los Angeles Lakers, you don't tend to have a great many high draft picks. That's a good thing as a franchise; to be able to say you haven't seen the NBA Lottery often. So, instead, I wanted to lay out my Top 10 Greatest Draft Picks of All-Time. Let me know what you think. Let the debate begin!!Begin Slideshow

There’s a undercurrent brewing in the corridors of the NBA that is still a whisper. Time will tell if it moves from tabloid speculation to front page sports headlines.  Whether entirely real or even a sliver of truth exists, the sad fact is that LeBron James and his performance and corresponding statements during the Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics series opened up a can of worms that will mirror his free ...

  The Western Conference’s semi-final round between the Los Angeles Lakers and Utah Jazz turned out to be not only a series of interior dominance on the Lakers part, but also a clash of offensive systems.  The Lakers brought Phil Jackson’s now legendary triangle offense against Jerry Sloan’s endless series of down and backpicks, an offense he’s run as the longest tenured NBA coach.  Utah's system is the "square" in more ...