Thanks for the prayer Jon K.

I like what I'm seeing, Bynum is moving light as a feather so all those playoffs jitters that he cannot play are part of the game. Kobe, getting out the fluids in his knee...big deal! If you believe it then you were just conned by Hollywood Lakers. Go Lakers make them obey in the 2nd half. Keep the intensity and defense altho' don't get too jerky Sasha cuz' Anna K. is watching.

Edwin

did you see what happened before Gasol's play?

Lopez the scrub passed by him 2 times for thunderous DUNKS

the Live Chat crew started to complain that Gasol does not have Shots. i was not sure if SHOTS AT HIM or the same old famous TOUCHES.

fast forward 1 min. to the play you pointed out. Gasol tries to create and is blocked by Lopez. jumped ball. Kobe penetrates and gives Gasol a shot/made ball.

Gasol passes by Lopez. alone under the basket and HE PASSES out to Ron? scared as … to not be blocked again.

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beginning second: Gasol like a highway pole: Lopez dunk
next possession: Nash layup while Gassy just watching

it's not only me. go to the Live chat box and read how many other FANS mentioned: GASOL, WAKE UP

yes, i believe what i see.

just wondering, does anybody have a link to a replay of the game? i thought nba.com was gonna have one, but i can't find it. anywhere?

Barkley and Miller talked too much, much of it non sense basketball, welcome to Laker's practice session...session 1 is over see you on Wednesday for another scrimmage.

Is it just me, or does Amare kinda look like a Klingon - what a forehead.

I am so very happy right now! My pre-game nervousness was dissipated quickly once the P&G took the court. Kobe is the most amazing man in the world. What a performance. LO was fabulous. Pau was solid. Fish was all heart & hustle. The bench put in some great time on the floor. Shannon has given us the highlight of the year - still can't believe what I saw. I love my Lakers. The statement has been made. The gauntlet has been thrown down. The Suns may not know it yet, but this is over.

amare looks like krs-one. google him and tell me i ain't right...

the lakers played good pick n roll defense tonite.

i really hope bynum gets it together. we probably don't need him to beat the suns but the celtics and magic are a whole other issue.

Ouchhh,

What you posted is really ouchhh, I'll give u a chance to take it back. You are forgiven for you did not expect what was about to happen. Lopez is a rookie who got a good lesson today, perhaps his time will come in the next five years but not tonight.

Tonight, it is the coming out party for Odom, he's like a wild stallion that just got out from the corral. The 3rd sleeping giant just woke up. Bynum the beast became a reserve but he's also buoyant as tho' they put a spring on those meniscus. How about the Shannon dunk? It didn't go in but even MJ was amazed by the elevation and length. Now they're wondering why they traded this player.

Jon K. that prayer is awesome. Thanks!

Go Laker's!!

Note: Am I the only one getting the bot requirement MM? Can you not hire one of the KBros back to LA Times and take a good guard of those troll? You need a company in the blog because the site is the most visited blog at this time of the year. They want to read what the basketball mind is saying.

Good Lord, Lakes are scared at Kendrick Perkins. he is the new calves King idol of Mike T.

131, I told u we want the Celts to win again tomorrow. Orlando was able to close the gap yesterday. Can you win Game 2? We want the Celtics in the Finals.....Bring on the leprechauns, they rhyme with fun, fun, fun.

Edwin

get to your corner, like justa. everything what i listed happened in the game. watch the re-play. i don't care about your chances

by the way you listed the freedom of speech on this and any other you have NO RIGHT to give chances to anyone. take care of your problems and your ADD. you never comment on the point and issue. just blabber away.

i'm not DFISh. i listed everything you asked. same before when you asked me about Ron to Cavs issue.

stop being patronizing and condescending.

i do not have to like all the players on the Lakers team

how many bloggers r KOBE haters and basher??????????????

If I hear one more "player's coach" be he Mike Brown or Alvin Gentry scream in the huddle, "We gotta play hard!" and/or "We gotta win this as a team!" I'm going begin throwing used chalkboard erasers at the TNT announcers whilst shouting the lyrics to Fear's "Let's Have A War!"

I'm just letting everyone know in advance.

What do we play for? RINGS!!!

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

GO LAKERS!!!

Why this series is all academic since the beginning??
1) nobody can guard Kobe
2) Pau and Lamar can dominate the paint ( they are lucky Bynum is still injured)
3) the lakers play good defense than the Suns
I've said before, the Lakers already played the WCF against OKC in the first round, that team challenged our team really well and it turned out as a blessing for our team to collect themselves and play like champions....GO Lakers...get well soon Bynum we really need you in the NBA finals for now enjoy the scrimmage against the Suns....

Upsides of this Game:

1. Awesome awesomeness!

2. Phil is like what, 42-0 when winning the first game of a playoff series? Thanks Phil. Thanks guys.

3. We owned the boards. We fought on the boards. Lamar played strong. We WIN when Lamar plays strong, almost without exception.

4. Kobe. Gasol. Their banner are going to hang from Staples someday. They played great.

5. I loved our defense.

6. I so happy we played as we did today.

Downside:

1. Andrew played well, but he didn't play a lot. I'm worried about that.

What do we play for? RINGS!!!

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

GO LAKERS!!!

Ouchhhh, how many points Gasol made tonight? 21 points. What is the difference in score? Coincidentally, it was 21 pts. too. Therefore, Gasol just paquiao'ed his guards. No chance to rehabilitate.

We're not condescending, you can say whatever you want on Gasol. What we are doing is just laying out the facts that the softness does not jibe with his total score. Somehow he must have talents that the power player Amare or the Stanford product, Lopez had. He would not be recognized as the best international player in NBA if he lacks the talent. The talent is expressed in soft and easy hook shots or fade away shot.

OK, I'm sure we will agree on Kobeeeeeee. Where is LA Guy? Lebron is busy for the fishing expedition at this time of the year. Most Valuable Fisherman.

We want the Celtics to win tomorrow and see that miracle players K. Perkins, Sheed Wallace, Baby shaq. They are the heavyweights of NBA according to Mike T. The weight is really heavy!

Does anyone now understand why I'm talking about Boston?

This isn't a series. The Suns don't have the bigs to deal with the Lakers.

Plus, the style of play the Suns do just plays into the hands of the Lakers.

Man, you have got to give it to Steve Nash. That guy is a warrior. I have nothing but respect for the guy.

How long will it be until these teams learn? You can't beat the Lakers without, at least, 2 defensive big men.

This looks like a sweep. I said Lakers in 6 but not from what I saw.

I was being kind out of respect for Steve Nash.

mike t.

Edwin

if you r taking me that way: when Kobe left at the 8th minutes of the 4th it was +26. so by pau scoring 21, he is MINUS 5.

by the way, from the Option #2 is EXPECTED a 20-10 game, don't you think?

or the Faux MVP?

and maybe 6-8 of those points where when the game was out of reach and steve was cooling his back on the sideline. so those r as Mike T. will say garbage stats. i will say are stat padding. like Le Bron when he was playing in the 4th with the Cvas up by 30 and he needing his triple-double to make the ESPN front page.

did Kobe ever do that? how many times with the team up he never played in the 4th or he was cheering from the bench?

Mike T.

Nash is a great player as well as the Suns as a whole shooting almost 50%.

Lakers are just inspired tonight starting from Kobe. As I said before this game it is not about WCF, it is the 4 year wait of Redemption from that 3-1 meltdown then followed by 2-4 in the following year. It has been so long of waiting, Kobe just pound it tonight in every shot because there are no more defenseless Smush around or this butter finger Kwame. I think he was thinking of the guys while he was on the free throw line. This game is dedicated to the scrubs of '06 and '07.

Do you want to come back as a Laker fan again, Mike? It is not too late to repent.

ouch- thanks. not sure why everyone is pointing out the flaws in your gasol disliking right now, but really ok, I do. Your Gasol disliking is pretty weird.

i'll keep checking bspn and justintv.

Edwin, I got the bot requirement too but I'm okay with it if it works to safeguard against trolls who were previously banned, etc.. I keep thinking about Brown's skywalk... he just kept going up, it seriously looked like invisible stairs. Just awesome.

{Lakers Secret Agent Jon K. Reporting From DEEP Behind Enemy Lines From The Wet Cold Rainy Wetness Of Another Sullen Night In Northeast Ohio}

So... perched valiantly upon my lucky barstool I was blessed with another victory from the supremely awesome awesomeness of the remarkably awesome awesome Los Angeles Lakers.

I, of course, endured my share of slings and arrows from people "strangely" and passionately rooting for the Phoenix Suns, despite none of them have ever actually seen a sun for more than two consecutive days in their lives.

As the game ended, the trolls slimed towards the doors and I was left with a small crowd of people I've know well for years now.

As I sat there with a broad Cheshire cat smile across my face, I engaged with a local who was championing about how the Celtics were going to beat us in the Finals.

I dismissed him and we volleyed back and forth and then frustrated he said almost aside, "I can't believe about Delonte West."

Perplexed, I responded, "What are you talking about?"

His eyes focused for an instant and said, "You know, about Delonte West and LeBron's mom?"

Suddenly I was like a middle school child who had been convinced that "gullible" was not a word in the English dictionary. "Huh?"

He went on to tell me that after Game Three in the Cavs/Celtics series LeBron found out that Delonte West had been having [intimate romantic relations] with LeBron's mother. And it completely freaked him out. It was such a big deal that he combination a) lost concentration b) took his frustation and anger out on Cleveland.

After hearing this story, I did not believe it. This guy has been an acquaintance, but not a reliable LeBroniac source.

I said, "You're making this up. WHERE did you hear this from?"

"I've heard it around."

I said, "That's not good enough."

He said, "Ask Nate!" Pointing to the bartender and my third best LeBroniac source.

I looked over at Nate, a lifetime Cavs fans NAMED after Nate Thurmond of the Cleveland Caviliers. He looked down and didn't respond.

"Nate, come on! He's making this up, right?"

He paused. "That's what I've heard. I heard it from [Jon K.'s number one best LeBroniac source.] I've heard it from multiple people who know."

"I don't believe it."

"That's what I've heard."

I looked around the room and all eyes seemed to be on me, perhaps because my disbelief was so pronounced.

Another said, "You haven't heard this?"

"No."

Then another said, "That's what people are saying. It's on Facebook."

I looked over at Nate. He gave me a knowing look of profound disappointment, "Yeah."

As a I surveyed the room, multiple people looked at me silently and nodded. I just could not believe it.

I will not include too many details of the matter, but, man, it sure sounds like things are really, really screwed up here with LeBron, the Cavs, and his crazy mom.

What do we play for? RINGS!!!

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

GO LAKERS!!!

THE PRAYER IS THE KEY TO THIS VICTORY!!!!

Thanks JOn K

That can't be true.

In other non-related news, Snaq had the team in his hotel room after game three for team building. They watched American Pie and Snaq nicknamed LBJ "Stiffler" - I have no idea why.

Okay, sorry, I couldn't help it.

Great win tonight. Scrimmage on Wed - see you then

DONE

Andrew didn't look great but he's helpin the rotation. Love that DJ got some run. Like to see he and Sasha tuned up for the FInals.

Finals? Yeah. We know, Phoenix knows. It is inevitable.

Tim-4-Show,

"That can't be true."

It can't be true anywhere but Cleveland.

Listen, I don't know it's true, but I was utterly surprised how people were convinced it was true.

I even thought back to Bruce Drennan's show on Sports Time Ohio (this guy is a great sports celebrity, but they way). Several people would call up on his show and ask if LeBron had any immediate "personal problems" that were distracting him.

Bruce was evasive, but ended with "Maybe."

Yeah.

I don't know. I'm just reporting what I see and hear.

What do we play for? RINGS!!!

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

GO LAKERS!!!

zen,

"It's not true..If it were true, it would be a front page story."

You might be right. I don't know, but to quote someone at the bar, "It's going to be in the papers in three or four days."

Everyone else in the place seemed pretty confident.

What do we play for? RINGS!!!

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

GO LAKERS!!!

Looks like Jon K has brought up some interesting stuff re LBJ's mom and Delonte West; apparently, a lot of stuff are in the rumor mills:

http://newzcurrent.blogspot.com/2010/05/lebron-james-mom-delonte-west-sleepin.html

http://blogs.bet.com/entertainment/spotlight/2010/05/17/did-lebron-james-mom-have-an-affair-that-cost-the-cavs-the-championship/

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2010/05/delonte-west-nailing-jumpers-lebron-james-mom/

http://bit.ly/dhiYr0

That would actually be a decent excuse for LBJ tanking in the playoffs. That is an UGLY rumor.

that's a stupid excuse for tanking in the playoffs. it might be nasty, but mom was already like that if it's true and Delonte West is only one teammate. why take it out on the rest of them? actually, i don't care. they all need to fall by the wayside, i'm a Lakers fan....

"that's a stupid excuse for tanking in the playoffs. "

Really, wow, what would be a good excuse, famine? You seem pretty upset by my comment for someone who doesn't care?
I'm a real Laker fan.

michoacan_1

Missed shots don't count as FG attempts when you are fouled.

Third quarter:

Suns: 24
Kobe: 21

If the Suns are the most efficient offensive team in the league,what does that make Kobe?

--FEARless

Jon K,

It's OK, we got the answers in this link. Your story is already on the internet gossip sites.

http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/05/17/lebron_james_mom/

@LakersFaithful,

You didn't read the whole article, to wit:

"The Suns might still win the series, but only if they can stretch it out to 13 or maybe 15 games and the Lakers lose interest."

He only thought that the Lakers might loose if Andrew didn't show. Drew played well tonight, in limited minutes.

Not even TJ thinks the Suns have a chance, anymore.

--FEARless

Edwin - I figured that'd be a method to help keep trolls away from here, especially with duplicate posts

MM

FEARless,

You wrote:

"Third quarter:

Suns: 24
Kobe: 21

If the Suns are the most efficient offensive team in the league,what does that make Kobe?"
_____________________________

Actually Charles Barkley might be right, Kobe is OLD.

Back then, Kobe would've outscored the whole team. This time he was outscored by the Suns. Yeah right Kobe is OLD!!!LOL!!!!!

KOBE IS MAKING CHARLES EAT ALL THE CROWS HE CAN TAKE!!!

Charles Barkley is STUPID.

LAKERS ALL DAY!!!

Michael C. Teniente,

Remember when you said that, "Without Bynum or with a gimpy Bynum, all bets are off in the west. Lakers will not win."

HOW CAN YOU EXPLAIN THIS? We have a gimpy Bynum right? But here you are talking about Lakers sweeping the Suns? What happened there? Are gonna admit now that you were WRONG?

BTW, you have no other conditions when you said that, it's just that, "Without Bynum or with a gimpy Bynum, all bets are off in the west. Lakers will not win."

I hope you will still be here when the Lakers KICK those Septics' butts!!!

cant wait for this decisive game 3. have a good feeling suns are going to put up a fight, because if they lose this one its done. then it will be lakers and celtics for the rematch everyone wants.

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I
think that all you LA.L fans that live in AZ need to go home,and start to be prepared for the Big One.Game 7, the upset,SUNS vs. Celtics FINALS