This has been a very difficult post to write. The completely embarrassing game six that ended the Laker’s season was just very hard to stomach and left a lot of questions. How does a team that two weeks ago was favored to win the NBA Finals against a Celtics team that struggled against the Atlanta Hawks and Cleveland Cavaliers go out with that little resistance? The Lakers were tough enough to beat the Utah Jazz......

Maybe y'all should've played. AP Photo/Winslow Townson It's over, and I don't think I've felt sicker than I do now. 131-92. And to the fucking Celtics.......

Lamar Drives to the Basket against Kevin Garnett. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill One of the first things to remember about the Lakers is to expect the unexpected. Throw all logic out the window since what was thought to have been known was just an illusion to begin with. It was destined before the season began that Kobe Bryant would be traded away. It seemed inevitable the Lakers with minimal roster changes would barely be......

Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant embrace in relief. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill In a game that was almost a carbon copy of game four, the Lakers escaped with a 103-98 victory. The Lakers started the game in sync again ending the first quarter with a 17-point lead. The Celtics came storming back in the second quarter with a 15-0 run going into the locker room at the half with a three-point deficit. But the......

Kobe Bryant wonders why I am such a bandwagon fan. AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian As much as the Celtics ripped the Lakers the other day, deep down inside I still have some hope for the Lakers to pull it out. Like most people in this city, the spectacle of game four at the Staples Center disgusted me. It was incomprehensible how the Lakers could let a 24-point lead slip away in the NBA Finals. Now......

Eddie House beat the Lakers? For reals? AP Photo/Mark Avery Gutless. Pathetic. Pitiful. Sorry. And that’s being generous to the Lakers. Lamar Odom started out the game with a driving layup, and it looked like with that intensity it would be a foregone conclusion the Lakers would win. Lamar and the rest of the Lakers kept up the intensity in the first quarter pulling out to a 21-point lead, the largest lead at the......

It’s been a long time since a winning team of an NBA Final’s game looked like a team destined to lose the series. That game Tuesday night was atrocious. Dancers at Jumbo’s Clown Room look better than that game. The Celtics shot 35 percent from the field and the Lakers not named Kobe Bryant and Sasha Vujacic shot 28 percent. And to top it all off, the Lakers obviously weren’t used to getting foul calls......

James Posey Given a Free Lane to the Bucket. AP Photo/Winslow Townson People around the city are bemoaning about the horrible job the referees are doing in the NBA Finals. One of the more outrageous conspiracy theories involves the refs deliberately calling the game against the Lakers so that the series would go a full seven games. It’s amazing to hear how far people will go to justify the Laker’s awful play. Take this......

It’s funny how things can change in the NBA Playoffs in the span of a month. Heading into the playoffs the Boston Celtics and their “Big Three” were preordained to have an easy road to the NBA Finals and maybe getting a challenge in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Detroit Pistons. I even said as much on this blog, though I did think the Pistons would end up defeating the Celtics. But something......

It all comes down to this. One night. A grueling, six-month season, all decided in 48 minutes on the court. Unfortunately for the Clippers, the court in question will be the Rose Garden in Portland, where the Golden St. Warriors play the Blazers. A win for the Warriors and they advance to the playoffs for the first time in 13 years. A loss opens the door for the Clips to potentially sneak in if they......

The Lakers and the Clippers are in the NBA Playoffs and well... we're happy for them. In a place like LA where we are used to titles, the playoffs used to be a foregone conclusion (well except for the Clips). But as it turns out, changes swept the landscape here and just to show you how weird things got, the Clips, who had their best season EVER, are a higher seed than the Lakers.......