Los Angeles Lakers

April 25, 2012 – Griffin Gotta You may remember NMA, the Taiwanese animation studio that, uh, adds its own unique angles and storytelling skills to the coverage of the current news cycle from such items as the Tiger Woods scandal or NBA lockout. [...]

April 20, 2012 – Griffin Gotta This time next week will officially be NBA Playoffs Eve; with six days left to decide who plays whom and who will qualify in the lower half of each respective conference’s standings, this is essentially a final reminder to breathe deeply and try to get any pressing matters taken [...]

April 19, 2012 – Dan Favale The New Jersey Nets have just three games remaining on their lockout-truncated docket and still can only hypothesize about what Deron Williams will do this summer. [...]

April 18, 2012 – Griffin Gotta The San Antonio Spurs oftentimes seem to be thought of only for how much the collective NBA audience does not think of them. Their core remains Tim Duncan in lesser games played and shorter bursts of dominance; Manu Ginobili healthy and off the bench; and Tony Parker, this season’s [...]

April 18, 2012 – Dan Favale The Orlando Magic are living a nightmare, yet there is an obscure, hard-to-acknowledge silver lining amidst their generous portion of turmoil. After what seemed like a futile effort to convince Dwight Howard to stay went [...]

April 17, 2012 – Dan Favale Life without Kobe Bryant is far from easy, and it’s anything but preferable, yet for the Los Angeles Lakers, the experience is a necessity. [...]

April 17, 2012 – R.S. De France Is Bynum the Best Center in the NBA? After Andrew Bynum led the Los Angeles Lakers to victory in overtime against the defending champion Dallas Mavericks, many are wondering if Bynum has become the best center in basketball. Bynum scored 23 points and pulled in 16 rebounds on [...]

April 16, 2012 – Dan Favale The Knicks lost 93-85 at home to the Heat Sunday afternoon, and are now preparing for Amar’e Stoudemire’s return to the rotation later this week. [...]

April 13, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Before we get to the weekend, a quick word on the Miami Heat and the “statement game.” Clearly, last night’s inability to overpower the Chicago Bulls’ bench unit is not going to look good on the resume, seeing as how they may need to defeat these Bulls — with [...]

April 12, 2012 – Dan Favale The NBA lockout sucked, and so have the many ramifications of its existence, but there is a silver lining to be found between the greed, blatant agendas and absence of amicable compromise. In more ways than one, this season has sucked too. The refereeing has been abysmal, the displays [...]