Lakers Blog | Los Angeles Times — Bodog.com has released its odds on who will win the 2011 NBA championship, and the star-studded Miami Heat, with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, are their favorite to win it all, at 7-4 odds. The Lakers, who are going for a three-peat (it would be Coach Phil Jackson’s fourth career three-peat), is the second favorite to win next June, at 11-4. They're followed by the Orlando Magic (11-1), the Boston Celtics (12-1) and the Chicago Bulls (15-1). The youthful Oklahoma City Thunder, Dallas Mavericks and Denver Nuggets follow at 18-1. By the way, the Clippers are listed at...
Los Angeles Lakers 1 hour agoLand O' Lakers | ESPN Los Angeles — As part of our look ahead at the Lakers' projected roster next season, we continue to work our way from the bottom to the top of the rotation. Next up... Player Pau Gasol Salary $17,823,000 Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images Pau Gasol has been to the Finals three straight times with the Lakers. How good does he need to be this year to reach a fourth? We've grown so used to the metronome-worthy consistency it was jarring to see him struggle, relatively speaking, but from the moment he tweaked a hammy in training camp nearly a year ago, Pau Gasol set himself up for much tougher sled...
Los Angeles Lakers 3 hours agoCoro's Suns dish | Arizona Republic — Phoenix Suns update: It's a holiday weekend so let's break out the orange slices: * It has been another great early turnout for the Suns voluntary workouts, which don't customarily start in earnest until after Labor Day. Nine of the 14 contract players are in town. The others are easily accounted for with Jared Dudley, Jason Richardson and Hakim Warrick sharing their workouts and events on Twitter and Hedo Turkoglu and Goran Dragic playing in the FIBA World Championship in Turkey. * With visitors like Amar'e Stoudemire, Zabian Dowdell, Cezary Trybanski, Sean Marks, Alex Scales and Lawrenc...
Phoenix Suns 4 hours agoLocker Talk | Orange County Register — Lamar Odom and the rest of Team USA is 5-0 in the FIBA World Basketball Championships after beating Tunisia on Thursday and is within four games of adding a gold medal to his NBA championship, a thought that got him rather giddy. “The thought of being a world champion twice in one year is cool, you [...]Odom and Bryant not on equal footing is a post from: Lakers blog
Los Angeles Lakers 4 hours agoLocker Talk | Orange County Register — Everyone makes mistakes with easy ones, but here’s what Alex Trebek calls Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s “embarrassing moment on ‘Jeopardy’ … Kareem Abdul-Jabbar flubs one on “Jeopardy” is a post from: Lakers blog Kareem Abdul-Jabbar flubs one on “Jeopardy” is a post from: Lakers blog
Los Angeles Lakers 4 hours agoLakers Blog | Los Angeles Times — Everyone who follows the NBA understands how important the second unit is to not only winning games but winning championships. The moves the Lakers made in the offseason certainly filled their needs -- a proven point guard in Steve Blake to team with high-flying guard Shannon Brown, providing a formidable long-range shooter and an athletic slasher. The departed Jordan Farmar was a fine second-unit point guard, but I think Lakers fans will be pleased with Blake's efficiency, and I expect Brown to continue to improve. Newly acquired Matt Barnes will team in the front court with Lamar Odom, givin...
Los Angeles Lakers 7 hours agoOrange County Register — Before change comes inspiration. Before inspiration, someone must inspire. Here is Jeremy Lin. Even if in his own mind he's merely just another American kid playing ball, here is Jeremy Lin. He's a somewhat reluctant torch-bearer for race. He has not...
Los Angeles Lakers 11 hours agoKings Blog | Sacramento Bee — I totally indulged my career-long obsession with international basketball and David Stern's behind-the-scenes global peace campaign during a half-hour conversation this afternoon with Omri Casspi, who was calling from Israel at about 1 a.m., his time. After 24 hours...
Sacramento Kings 13 hours agoSacramento Bee — A few hours before Israeli and Palestinian leaders met in Washington, D.C., Thursday in the latest movement toward peace in the Middle East, Omri Casspi placed himself on the fringes of the conversation. Yehuda Raizner Getty Images Omri Casspi plays basketball with Palestinian and Israeli children during a camp in Israel organized by the Peres Center for Peace.
Sacramento Kings 15 hours agoSacramento Bee — Seven years ago, without telling the City Council, former Sacramento City Treasurer Tom Friery agreed to make a notable change to the terms of the city's $73 million loan to the Kings. Task force member Tom Friery on Thursday, November 19, 2009. Mayor Kevin Johnson introduces nine of the 12 volunteer members of his arena task force. They will review arena proposals next month, as part of the mayor's effort to get a new arena going.
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