Fun stuff coming tonight...
From 11-12 am after tonight's game, Kobe Bryant (plays for the Lakers) and Spike Lee (makes movies) will be participating in a live panel discussion in conjunction with the DVD release of "Kobe Doin' Work." We'll be there, hosting a live chat. I'm not exactly sure what the format will be or if they'll be taking questions from the blogosphere, but it should be a very cool event and we'll do our best to capture the atmosphere. You can listen online to the webcast and follow along on the chat board, which will be posted both at 710ESPN.com and the LAT Lakers Blog.
Hope you can stick around. More information to come tonight in the chat.
BK
During the Finals last year (you
do remember the Finals, right). Andy and I checked in with the guys and gals over at the
Boston Globe's Celtics Blog, and kicked a few different subjects of interest. Well, it was such a hit-
a hit, I tell's ya!- that we're doing it again in celebration of the big Christmas tilt. We already have one swap up in Green Town,
discussing why this year's Lakers are better than last season's edition. To continue the discussion, I hit up Gary Dzen, one of their outstanding contributors, with the following question:
"To which team (and/or fan base) does this game matter more?" His response: It's more of a must-see than a measuring stick.
Don't misread any of the following as a dismissive jab at the Lakers. One
championship has not deluded Celtics fans to the point where they think their
team is untouchable. But beating the Lakers on Christmas Day is not the goal. In
the grand scheme of things, it's just not that important.
Celtics fans care about Thursday's game for two reasons. The first is that
Boston will have a 19-game winning streak on the line. No matter how much C's
fans try to downplay the Lakers as an opponent, losing the streak to LA would
sting a little more than losing it to someone else.
Hey folks. It seems a new tab has been added to each page on the comments, creating pagination. At the bottom of each comments page, there's a "next" tab you can click to go to the next set. And so on and so forth.
Click around and see if your posts aren't still going through. I'm able to see everything on the blog that I'm getting on the back end.
BK
As of Dec. 13th, 2008, I don't have the NBA package. When I called Dish Network in early November to order it, I was told the package wasn't being offered because of a dispute, which felt odd, since I was literally watching Dish commercials pimping the package (I think the nice lady on the phone was a little confused). Since then, I simply haven't gotten around to calling back. But even if my original order had gone down without a hitch, I doubt much of that investment would have been used to watch Minnesota Timberwolves action. Call me crazy, but studying the in's and out's of a 4-18 squad isn't my idea of a fun time. Thankfully, however, Nate Arch (aka "Stop-n-Pop") of SB Nation's "Canis Hoopus" blog does dig him some Wolves and was kind enough to answer some questions in anticipation of tonight's contest against Al Jefferson and Co. Check out his thoughts on Kevin's McHale, Love and Garnett, plus a few other items.
Hey folks. We're in the air this morning, heading back to the Midwest for Thanksgiving. As such, there will a) be no Extra!, b) not be much by way of updating until the afternoon (though we'll notify the mothership), and c) won't be a Purple, Gold, and Blue (though we did get into the ESPN studios Tuesday to get another podcast in the can, so those among you who for whatever odd reason just can't live without our yammering should be good to go... why you can't live without it being an entirely different and far more important issue).
Thanks!
BK
Hey folks. So the Facebook page for the blog is ready to go. Click here to find it. If that doesn't work, do a search on Facebook for Kamenetzky Brothers, and go from there. The goal here is to help those of you in our incredibly vibrant blog community communicate better with each other, swap emails, build friendships, etc. We'll try to post blog news there, as well as any other cool stuff we can find.
Friend up the page!
BK
(P.S.- As a courtesy to us- and at the risk of being presumptuous- if you could hold off on friend requests to our personal pages, we'd appreciate it. Not that we don't like you, but the hope is our page centering around the blogs could get pretty big, and as some Facebookers have their personal pages set to notify them of changes with anyone in their friend network, Andy and I don't want to bog down our non-blog friends with info from people they've never heard of. Thanks. BK)
Should he be so inclined, we don't want to do anything to impede Ron Artest in his attempts to join the conversation on Lakers Blog.
BK
