Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
A few weeks back, Phil Jackson ruffled a few feathers when the Heat got off to a slow start by suggesting that Miami coach Erik Spoelstra might find himself in a "Van Gundy-type situation" and get replaced on the bench by Pat Riley if the team continued to struggle.
Well here ...
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Sasha Vujacic might want to have his girlfriend, Maria Sharapova, put her "friends and family" tickets up on StubHub or something, because the 26-year-old guard might not be playing much this season for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Despite making two insanely clutch free throws that endeared him forever to Lakers fans ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Derek Fisher could have taken more money and gone with the latest, flashy option and signed a deal with the Miami Heat. Instead, he took less money to stay at home, and finish what he's started with the Los Angeles Lakers. In fact, Fisher's three-year, $10.5 million deal will net ...
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
By now we've all heard the reports bubbling up from all over the internet concerning Phil Jackson's future. The 64-year-old head coach has said he is "leaning towards retiring" but hasn't made up his mind just yet.
If Jackson does, in fact, decide to retire, his replacement is already on the ...
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
The Chicago Bulls have reportedly contacted Lakers' coach Phil Jackson through back channels to gauge his interest in returning to his former team.
I fully believe this report, but I have a ton of problems with it, most notably that it's really lame of the Bulls to contact a coach in ...
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Depending on their perspective (or what day of the week it is), the protesters outside of Staples Center last night are either mad at Phil Jackson because he doesn't seem to be totally against the new Arizona immigration law, that he believes his team shouldn't take a political ...
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
On Wednesday Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson told reporters that Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant receives preferential treatment from referees. Jackson said, "Yeah by the calls he gets, he really gets to the line a lot, I'll tell ya."
Durant, being the young, budding superstar that he is, totally ...
Posted in NBA, NBA Playoffs | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
The Los Angeles Lakers won a world championship in 2009 and promptly re-signed virtually their entire roster ... with one exception of course. The Lake-show called Trevor Ariza's bluff and let him walk to the Houston Rockets and in turn signed the talented yet enigmatic Ron Artest away from Houston.
Luckily ...
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, the Los Angeles Lakers reportedly pulled their three-year, $27 million offer to Lamar Odom, off the table. Lakers owner Jerry Buss is reportedly upset that neither Odom nor his agent Jeff Schwartz have responded to the NBA Champions' latest offer. Schwartz has not contacted the ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
On Tuesday, the world lost one of the most iconic sidekicks of all-time, Ed McMahon. Before he was peddling gold in Super Bowl ads, McMahon made his fame by sitting in the No. 2-guy chair next to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show (and decades later in a bizarre talk ...
Posted in Ed McMahon, Sidekicks | 12 Comments »
