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This is probably the toughest time of the year for NBA bloggers. With free agency now far behind us and training camps still a few weeks away, it’s tough to come up with stuff to write

Last month the Lakers announced the dates they plan to retire the jerseys of Jammal Wilkes and Shaquille O’Neal and when they will dedicate a statue outside of Staples Center to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I started thinking

One of my favorite basketball stories of the past 10 years involves Brian Cook. Remember him? Cook was drafted by the Lakers with the 24th pick of the 2003 NBA Draft. Cook had played his college

The role of a team captain differs from sport to sport. In hockey or soccer, it holds much more significance. In baseball its usually bestowed upon the  team’s elder statesmen. The quarterback of a football team

When it comes to sports, there’s nothing worse than indifference. It’s what causes people to start gambling on games or become fantasy football addicts. Why else would anyone outside of Cleveland or Jacksonville care about a

It’s always funny when people pretend they’re not biased. They usually feel the need to preface everything they say with phrases like, “In my totally unbiased opinion” or “I’m not just saying this because… .” One

This is the second part of a three-part series on the Los Angeles Lakers and their place in pop culture history. If you missed part-one, you can find it here. The 1980s were a golden era

If 2012 will be remembered as the year when people stopped making jokes about LeBron being ringless then let’s also make it the year we said goodbye to Jim Buss jokes. That’s because in addition to

Basketball and pop culture have a long history together. It wouldn’t be far-fetched to assume that having the league’s most entertaining and glamorous squad  in the entertainment capital of the world only helped to blur the