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Apr
17
What a year….had to wait till the last day of the NBA regular season to see the match ups between the west (2-8).
Lakers win the west!!! So we have home court advantage till the Finals, that’s great, plus we are a great road team as well (best in the west).
Our 1st round match up is Denver. Should be a fun match up, 4 stars, Kobe, Pau, AI and Melo…Lakers did win all 3 games against Denver during the regular season, but playoffs is a whole different thing. I highly doubt Bynum would be back during the 1st round…but don’t think we need him till we play Suns/Spurs (Conf Finals). My prediction for the 1st round, Lakers win it in 5! Would like to see others prediction…make a comment!
Do you have an office pool, use our bracket:
- Leo
Apr
15
Final Game of the Season: Lakers vs. Kings
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Well…this is it. The final game of the regular season and with a win tonight, the Lakers can secure the top seed in the west. Home court until the finals!!! I think that is a tremendous achievement considering how we started the season. NO ONE could have even imagined it to end like this…with the development of Bynum, the Lakers bench, the Pau trade and of course all the injuries this team has faced. It’s been an up and down rollercoaster.
The history with the Kings, i am sure they are going to try to spoil it for LA, so it should be a good game.
Tip off is at 7:30pm!
- Leo
Apr
10
Lakers’ Bynum “a long shot” to play Sunday
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PORTLAND - In discussing Andrew Bynum on Tuesday, Phil Jackson said “there’s a chance” Bynum could play Sunday against the Spurs at Staples Center, then called it “a long shot.”
Bynum, who has missed 42 games recovering from a left kneecap injury, would have to be able to “practice on Saturday in a way that could convince me to play him on Sunday,” Jackson said.
“He has to play in a practice and run well and feel comfortable and move the right way,” Jackson said, and added, “He’s still getting some swelling around that knee, but if there is some excessive swelling, then we’d have to say no.
“But right now we’re certainly not counting on (him). It’s just really a long shot.”
Jackson said the team doctors’ input will greatly influence whether or not Bynum plays Sunday. Chip Schaefer, the team’s director of athletic performance and player development, has worked with Bynum daily for the past two months.
“He’s moving relatively well,” Jackson said. “There’s still some things about his game that are not back to square one. Playing-wise, he probably could start to get in the fray a little bit as far as a practice goes. I don’t know what it’s going to look like. He doesn’t either.”
Bynum vs. Shaq
There’s a chance the Lakers could face Phoenix in the first round of the playoffs, and Bynum could be needed against Shaquille O’Neal.
“He would be an important person to have on your team because he’s got the bulk and the size to put himself out there and stop some of that bull nature that Shaq has,” Jackson said.
Bynum has faced O’Neal just once in his career, in his rookie season. Bynum’s only points came on a memorable dunk over his idol, who had just dunked on him. Bynum then gave O’Neal a playful shove, which drew an elbow from Shaq, and both of them got technical fouls.
O’Neal finished with 18 points and 10 rebounds, while Bynum played only four minutes.
Apr
2
The sprained left ankle is not 100 percent healed, but the Los Angeles Lakers will take whatever Pau Gasol can provide at center.
Gasol, who missed nine games because of the injury, is expected to be on the court Wednesday night, when the Lakers play the Portland Trail Blazers at Staples Center.
Gasol had played in a brief scrimmage Saturday, and participated in a full practice Tuesday, reporting progress with each workout.
“That’s the main question, right?” Gasol said in The Los Angeles Times. “If nothing crazy happens and the ankle responds well to the work today, I think it’s a pretty good guess that I’ll be out there.”
Lakers coach Phil Jackson said Gasol would start on Wednesday, but the playing time would be adjusted depending on how the ankle reacted.
“He’ll probably have swelling for the next six weeks,” Jackson said, according to The Times. “Anybody who’s had a severely sprained ankle knows that it just goes on and on. Eventually it subsides, but it’s still going to be an issue for a while.”
Gasol, averaging 18.9 points and 8.5 rebounds, had been filling in for Andrew Bynum, who has been out with an injured knee since January. The Lakers are 15-4 with Gasol in the lineup, and 5-4 without him.
“Can’t wait to work him back in the mix and get him out on the floor,” Kobe Bryant said in The Times.
Bynum, meanwhile, has been doing some drills on his own, but has not practiced with the team. Bynum likely will join the Lakers for the upcoming road trip to Sacramento and Portland to get him back into a routine, and, as Jackson said jokingly in The Times, “so he can hang out a little bit with his teammates and remember their names.”
Mar
25
Lakers Beat Warriors 123-119 in OT
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Great games, back to back, although LA should have won it Sunday night as well.
Love how LO is playing…a monster game last night, 23pts, 21reb, 5asst, 5blks.
Next Game: Lakers vs. Bobcats Wednesday at 7:30pm.
- Leo
Mar
20
Lakers have the least number of losses to their conference. They’re 27-12, 2nd most wins also. Only New Orleans has more wins (31-14) but everyone else is behind (Houston is 24-14, Dallas is 26-13). Looks like we’re ready for the playoffs. Bynum coming back; we just need Ariza back so we have depth but we’re going to rock. This playoffs is going to be insane.
Tonight’s game will be a challenge. Utah has only lost 3!!! times at home. That’s crazy. Hopefully we’ll make it 4.
Also, I was looking at the all-time winning streaks. I had almost forgotten about the streaks in 99-00. We had a 16-game streak between 12/11-1/12 and a 19-game streak between 2/4-3/13. What a team.
Pat
Mar
20
Andrew Bynum might be back before the playoffs after all.
Lakers coach Phil Jackson, who on Tuesday said Bynum would not be ready to play until the playoffs begin, said Wednesday that the center could return as early as two weeks before the start of the first round, The Los Angeles Times reported.
“I threw that out there [Tuesday] to kind of take everything off the table,” Jackson said, according to The Times. “We’re [now] saying it was three weeks as of [last] Sunday. It would give him a week — four games, three games.”
Bynum has been out since Jan. 13, when he dislocated his left kneecap and bruised a bone landing on a teammate’s foot while going for a rebound. The Lakers haven’t been more specific about his recovery than saying he would be out for at least eight weeks.
But Jackson warned on Wednesday that Bynum will have to get back into game shape, having missed more than two months of playing time.
“The reality is if he comes back and he plays the Sunday game and the Tuesday game before the season’s over [on Wednesday, April 16], great. It’s still not going to get our rotation [settled],” he said, according to The Times. “It’s going to be an exercise in kind of getting him back on the court.”
Jackson also said Pau Gasol, who has been out with a sprained ankle, is on his way back to health.
“He’s come around and he was actually on the court [Wednesday] shooting jumpers a little bit,” Jackson said, according to the report.
In his third year, Bynum is averaging 13.1 points, 10.2 rebounds and 2.06 blocked shots. He was leading the NBA in field-goal percentage (63.6 percent) and was among the best in rebounds and blocks when he got hurt.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
Mar
17
My first entry……….FUCK ALL THE HATERS…….LA lakers are going to win it all if and when we get healthy.
Mar
16
Without Pau, Andrew and Ariza…they almost won. Great 3rd quarter…they even came as close as 2 points in the 4th, but the 3 pointers killed the Lakers. 2nd loss in a row and 3rd in 4 games, as LA falls to 2nd place in a very tight western conference.
Kobe Bryant scored 24 points for the Lakers and smothered McGrady on defense, helping hold the Houston star to 11 points on 4-for-16 shooting.
Houston has won 22 in a row…2nd longest in NBA history. You guessed it, Lakers hold the record for most consecutive wins, at 33 in a row! 
Next game: Tuesday @ Dallas 5:30PM.
- Leo
Mar
7
They’re dropping like flies in the west. 6-7 since the trade and 3-5 with Shaq on the floor, doesn’t look good for them. 4-6 in their last 10 games pushed them from 1st to 6th. Playing Utah and Spurs next to games so I’m guessing they’ll drop those too and fall to 7/8.
Wouldn’t it be funny if they didn’t make it?
- Pat
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