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Last season, Kobe Bryant averaged almost 39 minutes per game (38:47 to be exact), and ranked 7th in the NBA in minutes per game. Phil Jackson has definitely put an emphasis on playing his bench more, and resting his starters this season. According to Lakers Reporter Mike Trudell, this season will be the fewest Kobe has played since 1997-98. Bryant [...]

The Lakers have now lost four in a row, and their lack of effort may be the root cause. Phil Jackson made these statement after the 93-86 loss against the Blazers, in Portland. “These guys just don’t want to play hard right now.” Jackson said. “It’s a product of not paying attention, not being focused & not playing the game [...]

Phil Jackson sat down with a group of traveling beat reporters on Thursday night, as the Lakers gear up for a game against the Portland Trailblazers. Jackson spoke in depth about his plans to retire after the season, and how he has been anticipating retirement for the last two seasons. An interesting story was told when he was asked about [...]

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By David Brickley – Los Angeles Well guess who’s back. After going 17-1, after the break, the Lakers have lost 3 straight to the Nuggets, Jazz, and most recently to the Golden State Warriors. The last time the Lakers lost three straight, it was against Orlando, Charlotte, and Cleveland right before the break. The Cavs loss was considered when the [...]

Eric Pincus of Hoopsworld.com recently came out with an article in which Phil Jackson speaks on Kwame Brown’s influence on a young Andrew Bynum: “We knew that we had to get another person ahead of [Bynum] so that he could come off the bench and Kwame Brown was a real good defensive player (traded for that year so that we [...]

Kobe Bryant has made many appearances in music videos throughout his career. Whether its been rapping on a Brian McKnight track, or simply being seen in a locker room in Destiny Child’s music video “Bug a Boo” Jay Chou is a Chinese pop star who asked for Bryant’s services in his latest music video. Bryant, doesn’t rap necessarily in this [...]

A few days ago, we brought you a video of Amar’e Stoudemire calling Pau Gasol soft at a New York Footlocker. Once the video became viral, Andrew Bynum immediately took to twitter to defend his fellow Laker “The NBA is a weird place! How can a man that plays 0 defense call a 2 time champion soft?” Lamar Odom, and [...]

David Brickley, and Kevin Figgers come to you for another LIVE edition of the Voice of the Nation. Rundown Denver Nuggets get the best of the Lakers MRI Results come in for Pau Gasol Kobe Bryant says, “Don’t baby Pau!” POLL QUESTION: Do the Lakers really need to catch the Spurs? Killer Bees get ejected vs Mavs Matt Barnes explains [...]

Here is an update, after Pau Gasol’s MRI today, courtesy Lakers.com Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol, who suffered an injury to his right knee in yesterday’s game against the Denver Nuggets, was examined today by team physician Dr. Steve Lombardo. Results of an MRI revealed that Gasol has a bone bruise. His status is day-to-day. In 76 games this [...]

Amar’e Stoudemire was asked by New York’s Hot 97 radio reporter Peter Rosenberg, what it was like playing against Lakers All-Star Pau Gasol, and if he considers him soft. “He’s still soft, you know what I mean”, Amar’e said with a laugh. “He’s a good player, but he has help down there with Lamar Odom, (and) Andrew Bynum. Those 7-footers [...]

Kyrylo Fesenko, center for the Utah Jazz, was involved in a couple of incidents with Kobe Bryant during the 96-85 Lakers win up in Utah. The first was when Fesenko banged knees with Kobe Bryant at the top of the key, and the other, was a hard foul followed by Fesenko throwing the ball towards Bryant. Pau Gasol had to [...]

Phil Jackson was named the NBA Western Conference Coach of the Month, today, for the games played in March. Jackson led the Lakers to a league-best 12-1 record in March. The Lakers (54-20), currently stand in second place in the West, trailing the San Antonio Spurs by 2 ½ games for the number one seed. The Lakers earned 12 wins [...]

With 9:23 left in the 4th quarter, Steve Blake drove to the basket, and was shoved to the ground by Jason Terry. Blake, immediately bounced up and got in Terry’s face. As officials were trying to separate the two, Matt Barnes rushed in and shoved Jason Terry. Barnes, was immediately ejected, and was pushed away by officials towards the Lakers [...]