HEY! Give our lil Brothers the Clipps some credit. They are starting to grow up. did you think you could keep pushing them around for ever and they wouldn't push back. this is what we need competition. We never need to get too over cconfident and the clippers beating us for the 1st time in 1000 years - Jon. K - should help us do that. Now relax! Think of all those folks around the country freezing. Makes you feel warm all over huh? Okay back to work the Trolls are back so stay on guard. By the way WHO ARE WE?
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We’re the World Champion LA Lakers , we’ve won 15 Rings
10 of the 50 Greatest players played under our wings
We’ve had 3 Laker Dynasties and now are starting on 4
That’s 2 better than any NBA team ever had before
The best Winning Percentage in History, can’t ask for more
You want Hall of Fame Coaches, Check it, we’ve had four
We got the Finals MVP, By the name of Name Kobe Bryant
He scored more points than an entire team without even trying
He scored 81 points in a game & could have scored more
But Rings not number of points is what he plays for.
We got The Logo Jerry West & The 1st Great center George Mikan
The smooth one Elgin Baylor & Magic Johnson the Icon.
We’ve had great centers like Shaq, Wilt & of course KAREEM
Super guards Worthy, Goodrich & Silk played on the Laker Team
Karl Malone & Gary Payton, A glove & Mailman we just leased
A 10 time Title Winning Coach who mastered Zen in the East
Chick Hearn the Legend, Broadcasted our Lakers Games
Now he’s Broadcasting from Heaven & is in the Hall of Fame
The most valuable NBA franchise is the Lakers year after year
That’s because in the finals we nearly always appear
We got Sports Winningest & Best Owner, Thanks Dr. Jerry Buss
We play for Rings & Rings only , which is why all teams fear us.
That’s just a summary of our Resume, we don’t talk we Do.
We’re The Freaking World Champion Lakers, Who the Hell are You

That was a bad loss last night.

I know he just got back from injury, but I'm not very pleased with the way Ron Artest is playing. His ball handling is looking pretty terrible, some of the shots he throws up are horrendous, he can't hit a free throw. Pretty much all he's useful for right now is an occasional 3 ptr, and being a pesky defender. And the pesky defender thing is now in question after the way Lebron manhandled him on Christmas.

I write this because I'd like to see a huge improvement in the way Artest is playing for us. At this point, Trevor Ariza was most certainly the better fit for this team. I hope Ron Artest makes me eat this post.

The Gilbert Arenas story is pretty crazy. My opinion on it is that Arenas is surely an idiot who's on the brink of throwing away his contract that he didn't deserve in the first place. To think that Crittendon got involved is pretty crazy too. I remember many here saying Crit was our PG of the future. lol.

This opens up a whole range of issues though, from the right to carry a gun, to the stereotypes of the African American NBA player. It should be interesting to hear the debate about this.

Go Lakers!
Go Chargers!

Floyd, Mamba... Excellent posts.

No drama needed.

Long road to run and let's doing it in style.

Or at least not boneheaded. ;)

Mark Medina
WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no Kelly Dwyer or Henry Abbot links EVER, please. they r the biggest kobe/Lakers HATERS out there.

WE R PRETTY SENSITIVE AROUND HERE

whoever likes their writing know where to find them. tx

U R LOSING points with the bloggers. if MB and BT don't fire U, we WILL!!!!!!!

The Clippers beat us, now it's time for us to beat the Trailblazers... at the Rose Garden.

I'll enjoy watching those hateful Portlanders dissolve into a putrid bubbling puddle of goo after watching their team be embarassed by the Lakers.

What do we play for? RINGS!!!

Lakers Today... Lakers Tomorrow... Lakers Forever.

GO LAKERS!!!!

I'm still a bit amazed by Gilbert Arenas' pre-game cowboy shooting skit.

I mean, he can't be that stupid. He has to be delusional or something. Hasn't anyone learned from Plaxico Burness or Jayson Williams?

This idiot machismo bullcrap of always having to pack heat wherever you go is simply ridiculous.

You can either pack heat and get in a gunfight with some hood because he want's to steal the $250,000 in bling you're wearing or you can not wear $250,000 in bling, not have to worry about being robbed, not have to pack heat and keep your money in a bank or invest it and earn interest on it. What's common sense?

I'm so tired of of popular culture in the form of Rap music and celebrity athletes promoting gangsterism and stupid machismo. It was never interesting (well, maybe for N.W.A.'s "Straight Out Of Compton", but that's it and only for a moment!) and 20 years later it's just plain played out.

There's nothing cool about acting like a thug.

It's just plain lame. I pity the fool who thinks otherwise.

What do we play for? RINGS!!!

Lakers Today... Lakers Tomorrow... Lakers Forever.

GO LAKERS!!!!

Man, I wish I could be impersonated by somebody who was smarter than your average garden plant, I could take a break from posting comments every now and then.

What the LATimes lakers blog might look like if they hired in house from a commenter;

Hey! GOOOOD MORNING LAKERS BLOG!

I’m going to start off today by continuing my point by point refutation of a comment at the end of the thread before the last one. For the high number of people who come to this blog to get Lakers news and notes and don’t read the comments section, well, I hope you have a few more hours in your day to catch up on reading every single one of them.

Then I was going to have a clip of Phil Jackson’s question and answer session from the practice facility at the place I left my wallet…El Segundo. I had a hard time getting the camera to work, so I’ll just tell you guys what happened. My first question to Phil was ‘Who is doing more to drag the Lakers down, hurt their chances of repeating, and is overpaid the most, Drew Bynum or Luke Walton? My follow up question was to tell Phil that he needed to trade Jordan Farmar for Nate Robinson. I didn’t get to ask my next question; telling Phil that he needed to fire himself because he didn’t take a time out soon enough after yesterday’s game and was ruining Adam Morrison’s potential by not playing him enough, cause the security guys escorted me out of the building.

Here is a link to Kevin Ding’s article from the OC Register. I love that guy. I hate plashke, Simers and Bresnahan and I refuse to read or link to anybody from that one four letter networks web page, so, um, here’s another link to the same article by Kevin Ding.
Well, I have a bit more space to fill, cause I stayed up late last night arguing with everybody on the comments page and didn’t have time to write any original material, but I would like to say that I think that the Lakers would have fewer injuries if they replaced Gary Vitti with this acupuncturist guy I know. Oh, and here is an unsubstantiated rumor I heard about why TMac really want to come to LA because it’s such a great dog city and he has two dogs.

So, are the Lakers great or what? Not as good as they would be if they traded Luke Walton for Chris Bosh, but great. Here is a long list of ways that Chris Bosh is better than Luke Walton.

So…hey, when I was over at the Lakers practice facility today, guess what? I left my wallet there! Oh, wait, I did that one already. Man, this is hard.
Now for my handy dandy catch phrase;

FARGO NORTH DAKOTA LIKES THE FLOOR WAX BANANA FURNITURE POLISH

FARGO LOVES A GOOD NON SEQUITOR, EVEN IF IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO ANYBODY

IT IS ALL ABOUT COUNCIL BLUFFS, IO…SORRY, FARGO NORTH DAKOTA. YELLOW JALOPY EGGPLANT

GO LAKERS!

Clippers will be champs! in 2210

MM

i totally agree with your point BUT,

these 2, kelly and abbot never said anything lightly good about the lakers. they r totally biased and especially HATE kobe.

they r the one that do not leave room for discussion. why should WE give them HITS on their blogs.

if u consider that is the "market" place of ideas, we should not put money in "markets" that do not want US around.

maybe i was not more insightful about it for the first time. and do not forgot, by using THEM u will LOSE your OWN HITS. how is that for an exchange. U will be BLACKMAILED. :-)

Commentary

During the time of Kareem, they brought marijuana in the locker room, today it's guns. I propose that all teams' locker rooms should be audited, unannounced and inspect every players lockers thereby putting aside their privacy rights and and in the presence of the head of the players' union. One reason of Arenas' swell head and no fear attitude, we kept on calling him Agent O, so he thinks he is licensed to carry guns and possibly shoot or scare anyone. Aside from him and Javaris, Matt Barnes announced that he also carry guns, not only one but two in case the other one jammed.

Wow, they are really scared in safeguarding their huge pay check with little efforts in earning it while many people nowadays depend on government unemployment income. Well it all started with going to the process of going to college for only for one or two years, using it as a bridge in lure of wealth in NBA draft. There is no respect at all to the value of education. They are not aware that education prepares them to be upright individuals capable of handling or managing their money. On the other hand, educators and David Stearns allow it to happen because of the wealth involved it can give to the leagues whether to the NCAA schools or NBA. As soon as these half educated professionals can afford it, they wear diamond erring, paint their bodies with all kind of tattoos like just what taggers do on residential walls, again this is symbol that they belong to NBA close circle. Belong to what? Is it a Maori tribe, an aboriginal mountain tradition or just plain NBA hooliganism? Next, they carry guns in the work place, gambling addictions, drunk driving, unlimited sexual lure etc. I believe in liberalism but this is beyond what is reasonable and acceptable as dictated by norms and mores of any society. IMO, this is one sign of the decadence of our youth today.

Perhaps, a good punishment for Arenas is to give him a reality check where he can use his guns effectively. First, include him in the training at a boot camp; Second, he will join the 30,000 young men going to Afghanistan this spring; Third, he will be assigned in the front lines being a good shooter and a gun expert too.

After his tour of duty, the next phase of his punishment, he will be mixed with starving people or refugees in Africa who are mostly victims of civil unrest. He will be moving around for one year from Darfur to Chad to Somalia without any money. Nobody knows him there as Gilbert Arenas, he has to find means how to survive on a daily basis. Once he experiences the vagrancy of life, he will either become a full-bred jihadist or a rehabilitated professional player. That is the true meaning of NBA Cares, not only for photo-opps in the presence of school children but a worthy punishment for a highly paid professional who is also as role model by aspiring school children to be like Gilbert.

Good morning ZairaAmaterasu, I didn't mean to leave you out of the greetings this Morning. I agree no drama needed. Just win by 15 over the Blazers. Lol
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IT IS ALL ABOUT COUNCIL BLUFFS, IO…SORRY, FARGO NORTH DAKOTA. YELLOW JALOPY EGGPLANT Posted by: phred | January 07, 2010 at 11:55 AM

You sure you the real phred and not some imposter? I didn't see no About the Love anywhere in that post. And if it aint about the love, then it aint phred. Remove this imposter immediately! Lol!
Mamba24

Phred, I am playing Wii with friends and having ton of fun but I absolutely HAD to step in and give you a giant applause for your post.

Aaa-maaaa-zing :)

thanx;)

*gets back kickin it hard at Wii Tennis Pro*

Is anyone else horrified at the thought of Fish potentially matching up with Rondo, Jameer Nelson or Mo Williams in the finals? Our biggest obstacle for a repeat is not Boston or Orlando, it is DFish.

Posted by: LAKER TRUTH

Yes. Thats the East, lets not forget about Billups or Parker in the West.

phred,

"If Gilbert Arenas had thrown a press conference as soon as the gun toting story broke and jerked a few tears for the cameras, then apologized to everybody for the misunderstanding and promised some community service, would the suspension be the same? "

No, because we're a fairly forgiving society when people repent, even (unfortunately) when those repents are purely cosmetic. What we don't like is when people do absolutely stupid things and then shout out, "WHAT?!? It's no big deal! See? I'm smiling!"

That tends to piss people off.

What do we play for? RINGS!!!

Lakers Today... Lakers Tomorrow... Lakers Forever.

GO LAKERS!!!!

phred,

But I do agree with you regarding David Stern's fascism.

That guy is the Devil. Really. He and others like him are personally destroying our society by rewarding/marketing narcissism while simultaneously doing everything he/they can to pretend that the trends in narcissism he's/they've created are actually well-disguised patterns of character/humility/charity.

"NBA Cares"

Yeah, cares about profits and image.

I'm all for people giving back to their community and giving to charity, but whenever these NBA commercials showing NBA players engaging in charity work are on, I just cringe. It just feels so... forced.

I can practically see David Stern just off camera wearing a Darth Vader helmet/mask darkly chuckling to himself, "Excellent. Yes, yes... excellent. It's all going according to plan."

What do we play for? RINGS!!!

Lakers Today... Lakers Tomorrow... Lakers Forever.

GO LAKERS!!!!

That is the true meaning of NBA Cares, not only for photo-opps in the presence of school children but a worthy punishment for a highly paid professional who is also as role model by aspiring school children to be like Gilbert.
Posted by: Edwin Gueco | January 07, 2010 at 12:07 PM

Come on Edwin, Arenas doesn't have to go to Afghanistan to see a war zone. Have you been to Compton or Englewood in Chicago. Id' take my chances in afghanistan any day. Sure these young guys are spoiled and don't know what to do with their money, but is that so different than Dick Cheney and his freaking hunting trips where he shoots a guy in the face. Far as I know Agent zero aint shot nobody yet. look at that NBA player in Chicago who was robbed twice once even in his own high rent district home. It's cold out here bro and if you managed to survive all these years without getting stuck up or worst then God bless you. Some of us aint that lucky. I don't carry a gun and i aint a celebrity but I can honestly say if God was not with me more than a dozen times there would be no Mamba24 here now. So if you aint got a gun and you aint got God what you got? Pure HELL. gilbert Arenas is an idiot, but not for the gun thing. He's an idiot for not realizing the 24/7 Media is just waiting for their next Tiger Woods story and Agent Zero is it. Speaking of which I can't believe that all of a sudden only Black guys ie Tiger Woods, Arenas, Kobe, OJ are the only mega-stars that get in these stupid situations. makes you wanna go hmmmmm. Well that's it I'm off my soap-box and putting on my gold laker Armor for the arrows that are about to fly my way. so folks what say you?
Mamba24

do u ever read/think before u post your one liners? or you just spill out your morning enthusiasms? OUTFREAKING PATHETIC Posted by: just another "index" swish | January 07, 2010 at 01:10 PM

Ahhh 'Swish' I didn't know you cared. But didn't you know, I'm a Moron brother! ROFLMFAO!!!!!! Here's a one liner for you bro, I hope the "swish" in your name has to do with basketball and not some other types of balls. I'm just saying pathetic as I am.

mamba24:

YOU WROTE: :Have you been to Compton or Englewood in Chicago.

I used to roll with crips, bloods and south chicago homies but now I am a born again who follows TV evangelists. I get healed just by touching the TV screen when they are on tube.

I say brother heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel and touch that TV and ye shall be healed!!

"You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!"

They should rename the Wizards back to the Bullets.