That explains a lot

I prefer the CLS Mercedes that had Suicide Doors...

Great...

Ankle surgery. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, huh? A prime example of the Walton genes for you. Yes Luke...he IS your father. I guess these ankle/foot problems will only be getting worse and more degenerative. What's next...back problems to match?

It's commonly known that an athlete with injury or weakness issues in a particular part of his/her body will overcompensate as a result. This produces repercussions in other areas, and nothing good comes of it.

Considering his age, how ridiculous would it be to think that we may have already seen The BEST of Luke Walton? Sheesh....

Could his over-priced contract seem any more ludicrous NOW in light of his fragile feet and ankles???

Sure, it's been said that a sucker is born every minute, but what GM would take Luke off our hands now? LOL...

Maybe someone can talk Luke into "retiring" so his contract can come off the books, and then he can return (ala Brett Favre) to play for another team. Anyone but the Lakers...please!

P & G R

Bone spurs on his ankle???? So THAT's what Luke's problem is!!!!! WOW!!!! So this year is going to be Luke's BUST OUT YEAR and we'll all see exactly why the Lakers gave him such a huge contract!!!! Maybe now we'll see for a certainty that white guys CAN jump! YAY!!!! Things are looking up at the SF position!!! Watch out NBA - the Lakers are about to unleash the REAL Luke Walton on your collective butt's!!!!!!!!

............if only..............

Luke Walton's surgery was a mere footnote to Mata-Real and Jefferson applying for the team. That should be the headline of a player with the team on his 5th season and he's practically the longest tenure to be b/c Lakers has a contract till 2013. I wish him well with the bone spurs removal and whatever psychological program he needs so that he is no longer the main topic of this blog in every game.

Is there any word on Jorge Garbajosa's injury, is there any link that says somethings of his recent games or rehabed from the surgery. I guess Vlade Divac and Ron Lester are aware of what is capable of at this time.

Goooooooooooooooooooooooood morning Blog!

Posting from work, eeek!

Hopefully it'll be a good day in Lakerland. I can see it now:

Mitch'll get a little more tan waiting on the beach for desperate teams offering some measely excuse of a trade for Lamar.

Lamar will have a great day designing some trendy threadsd to sport at next years PG interviews. Then he'll shoot 500 free-throws and work on his up-and-under move.

Luke will have shot 1,000 jumpers and worked on his funky white-boy post game. Then he'll grub down on some Waltonian fare.

Sasha will have sat by the phone all day, but the only person calling is his buddy Pau saying..take the 2.5...take the 2.5...then he'll work on getting a shot off AFTER he takes the ball to the rack.

Ronny will say, my heart is in LA, but the green is in the Bay. Then he'll do a little shimmy and call Andrew B.

Andrew B. will pick up on the other line and say, "Dang Ronny, you got a new heart and were playing again in like...6 months, dog. What's a fella got to do to get his knee back proper?

Trevor's sitting at home saying, I love LA!

Kobe's finger is magically regenerating in his newest shoe commercial. Like Wolverine regenerating!

Pau is playing badmitton on the beach saying, "Who's soft...OOOH! watch the birdie! Hey, lemme call Sasha V, "Take the 2.5....take the 2.5...."

Derek's at home with his family saying, I love LA!

PJ and JB are larking through a field of daffodils and poppies...well, Jeanie's larking and Phil's lurching.

Doc Buss is looking around his room saying...man, I know I put a playmate SOMEWHERE around here...Mitch?!

GO LAERS!!!!

The term jiggowatts is used in the movie "back to the future" for the flux capacitor.

Dr. John Smith,

That was so July 14, 2008 of you.

P&GR -

Luke needing surgery is not strong evidence for any heritable problems that could have passed to him from his father.

Also, just because you have a problem and need surgery doesn't mean that it is going to be degenerative.

I guess my biggest thing is to note that there is a difference between correlation and causation. Here's an easy example for you - the rise in temperature in Los Angeles and the rise in sales of ice cream. Both events are correlated, but we don't say that the rise in sales of ice cream caused the rise in temperature.

If you'd like to talk more about causation (probabilistic/bayesian, counterfactual, process theories), feel free to drop a line.

I hope Luke feels much more mobile after this operation. We're gonna need him for sure next year!

I'm with you, Jon K, I hope that Luke shows up with his body ready next year.

Pre-Olympic Basketball

Team USA vs Canada

5:00 PM Pacific Lakers Standard Time

ESPN TV

AK or BK,

Have you seen any of the guys working out at the Toyota Center?

Charles

Hello and good day to you sir,if u ever come down under i want to invite you down to my sheep ranch in queensland.And we can party hearty my friend.I make great home brew. lol

Caliphilosopher,

Who's your favorite philosopher?

What are your feelings about semiotics?

If Kobe Bryant was a classic philosopher, which philosopher would he be?

Marcus Aurelius, perhaps?

I mean, Shaq was the Big Aristotle, right? (By the way, I think Aristotlelian logic sucks.)

GO LAKERS!

I wish the Lakers were paying money to someone who's better at basketball than Luke Walton, because he's not good.

Ex,

You know what, if that what was really the cause of Luke's problems this year, then I'll gladly eat my words. Hell, I'll be the first to step up and do it.

Here's to a speedy recovery and a successful new season for Luke "THE ACE OF SPADES" Walton.

-bozz-

- Lamar was coming off a serious shoulder surgery last season, but most fans will not give him a break because he has been inconsistent, injury prone and mentally fragile for so many years.

- Kobe played with a finger that required surgery and played through tendinitis in his knee all year, but nobody uses those injuries as excuses for Kobe.

- VladRad was out almost an entire year, but nobody is giving him any sympathy for his up and down play last season.

- Kwame Brown was seemingly always dealing with some type of injury, but nobody (except Mike T) ever made excuses for his inability to catch the ball.

- Yet, when it comes to Luke, people are ALWAYS MAKING EXCUSES for him. Every possible injury is overemphasized as an excuse for his horrible play. He's been a Laker for how long now?? 5 years? And during that time, he played decent ball for about 2 months (during his contract year at the beginning of the 2006-2007 season). If this ratio was equated to baseball, he would be batting less than .100. He does not deserve any more excuses, but I am sure the excuses will continue until his contract runs out in 2050.

I'm a little erked with Sacramento. They have a risky player looking for a trade and a terrible contract they want to package with him. Am i the only one who thinks the Maloofs are getting a little pushy? They better take what they can get.

Personally, i think LA should cut Sac off at the pass. Package LO, Luke and Mihm for Marion and Haslem. That gets both LO and Marion off the market and leaves Sacramento wondering what to do with both Kenny Thomas (and his contract) and the agent-less renegade.

As a side note, i think Riley likes both Odom and Luke enough to actually do that deal.

retire the jersey of the Kwaminus??? how about FILLING that jersey with Kwaminus "Bill" Brown himself! LOL!

Oh yeah, one other thing, Luke "Bill" Walton sucks. Thank you.

justanothermambafan,

".......if only........"

he wasn't soft.

Sonnybelfast

Jon K. -

Good Afternoon to you, good sir! I'm flattered by the questions. I'll do my best to answer them succinctly.

>>>1) Who's your favorite philosopher?

When I first started, it was Kant. Unfortunately, that was before I made the concerted effort to try to read and understand his work (the fact that you can write a full page and only use 4 sentences and various technical terms that are spelled exactly the same as words that mean something completely different made him hard to read). Since I'm partial to philosophy of science, social science, biology, ethics (normative, meta, and a touch of applied), philosophy of mind, personal identity, rationality, and free will, it's hard to have a favorite. Coupled with the fact that I have met a number of prominent philosophers, it's even less clear. I

do know, however, with whom I would start a philosophy rec league team. I'm a 6'3" swingman (I play 1-5; remember, this is rec ball we're talking about), my friend Phil (6'1", solid defender), A friend of mine who is working on his PhD at Cal (6'7" SF - has NO problem bombing triples over people), Ted Sider (5'10" combo guard - put in his time [and probably still does] on the playgrounds in NYC), and a friend of mine who goes to Rugters (6'6" SF). I'm sure that we'd win our fair share, but we'd probably lose our fair share too. So, to make an EXTREMELY long answer somewhat shorter, I don't have a fave. Hempel, Quine, Sober, Salmon, Kitcher, and Goodman are all up there. Ernie Lapore is the one who I would LOVE to have dinner with (again); that man has the gift of gab.

>>>2) What are your feelings about semiotics?

Good question - I actually bought a book on it (Introducing Semiotics, part of the UK Introducing series), and I'll have to go over it again to give you a better answer. I think that I read it over the course of a week, but late at night (hence why I can't remember much about it). From what I can gleam, it's the study of signs (almost like a combination of philosophy of language [referents], psychology, and media studies). I can be spectacularly incorrect about it; I'll get back to you on this one. :-)

>>>3) If Kobe Bryant was a classic philosopher, which philosopher would he be? Marcus Aurelius, perhaps? I mean, Shaq was the Big Aristotle, right? (By the way, I think Aristotlelian logic sucks.)

If by classic you mean ancient, then I would go with that one (since the ancients did more than just philosophize).

I think (on prima facie grounds) that Mr. Bryant would be like Machiavelli - ruthless, contrarian, and fiercely calculating. And highly talented. Not a man that the rest of the league wants to eff with. More recently, I could see him being a cross between vintage John Searle and R. Jay Wallace......well, maybe just a part of him. I do know that Ron Artest would be Saul Kripke - both of those guys are CRAZY!

Shaq CLAIMED that he was the big Aristotle; unfortunately, I don't think that he ever touched the nichomachean ethics. Shaq is more like that random dude in your philosophy class who isn't a major but thinks that he knows what he says is intricately and unequivocally superior to what the Prof is saying. I'm not even CLOSE to giving that man some sort of comparison.

Aristotelian logic doesn't do much for me either. Syllogisms are neat to memorize, but pointless (in my opinion) to apply. I prefer my logics to be of the modal and deontic flavors (paraconsistent logic is also quite interesting, but I'll have to do more reading up on that. It seems to make sense, but it has it's own problems as well).

Hope all is well with you Jon K.! You're in the Cleev', correct? I might be up there in a few months for a bioethics conference (at Case Western, I presume). Keep your fingers crossed for the acceptance of my abstract!

- Caliphilosopher

Blanca,

"...i think LA should cut Sac off at the pass"

If this means keeping Bill Bill out of purple and gold, me too. What are you waiting for?

Sonnybelfast

Fatty,

Urgh.

85 days and counting...

GO LAKERS!

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** RETIRE KWAME BROWN'S JERSEY & SIMULATANEOUSLY REHIRE KWAME BROWN Bandwagon **

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(01) JON K. - Owner and Reckless Driver
(02) Kwaminus "Bill" Brownicus cracking his knuckles getting ready for a contract - Co-Owner
(03) MICHAEL T. - Washing Kwame's Jersey As We Speak

GO LAKERS!

Luke Walton es un Uquencha Orcha! (soft power)

whoops......Sasha news is good news is waht I was was trying to type