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Darren Collinson threw a pass and Dwight Howard jumped in, intercepted the ball and threw it over his head as he fell into the first row of seats at American Airlines Center. It resulted in a tip-in by Darius Morris, which gave the Lakers a 100-71 lead halfway through the fourth quarter. Up by almost 30-points and still playing defense [...]

It might be improper to quote him in light of recent events, but Phil Jackson once said that there’s a lot more to winning championships than just talent and hard work. He said there’s a bit of luck that comes with it as well. In short, various circumstances have to intersect for a team to win it all in the [...]

Just when you thought it was safe to get excited…the Lakers lose to a sub-.500 team. It’s a familiar scenario, yes? No matter who the Lakers are coached by and no matter who is on the roster, when the time comes to play a bottom-dwelling team, that team somehow finds their inner beast and makes it a point to play [...]

The Lakers beat the Nest to end their home streak,

  Bernie Bickerstaff with the 4-1 record – how about that? It was a good night (perhaps weekend, even)  for the purple and gold. Despite the absence of their new head coach and both their primary point guards, the Lakers continue to rise above the turmoil that has been their early season, in order to play their best on the [...]

The Lakers falls in a close one to the Spurs,

  That’s two wins in a row for the Weekend With Bernie project. It’s not much, but at least it’s a streak on the right side of the column. Though numbered are the days of the current coaching staff, Bickerstaff (and staff) have made the most of their time with the Lakers, producing some positive sightings of a once down-trodden-looking [...]

The Lakers kept it simple in their recent win over the Warriors.

The Lakers lose another winnable game in Utah, 95-86, dropping them to a woeful 1-4.

The Lakers finally get their first win if the season vs. the Pistons, 108-79.

Having a veteran, All-Star studded starting five is a beginning – an unbelievable, can-you-believe-who’s-on-this-team-caliber beginning, but five players do not an NBA Championship make. Despite an opening line-up so dominant (no longer “on paper” or “in theory” since Dwight Howard’s debut this past Sunday gave us a preview) that it angers the rest of the league, the Lakers are still [...]

At least they didn’t get swept? At least they “only” lost by 16 points? At least no one got ejected? It’s all that came to mind on this night, but all the silver linings located in all the clouds in the sky will not remedy the end of a shortened, rollercoaster of a season that was, again, not punctuated by [...]

Are you freakin’ kidding us, Lakers? They got blown out in Game 1 at OKC – fine. The Thunder had 9 days of rest and the Lakers had one. The Lakers had control of most of Game 2, and as hard as that loss was to accept, at least it showed that they could not only keep up with OKC, [...]

Of course the Lakers jumped to an early 12-point lead. Of course they eventually lost it to an OKC run. Of course Kobe Bryant had a huge game. Of course the game came down to the last second. And of course Russell Westbrook and Metta World Peace got tangled up on the floor fighting over the ball and were issues [...]