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CBS: The Los Angeles Lakers have signed free agent center Larry Turner, it was announced today. Per team policy, terms of the agreement were not released. Turner, a 6-11 center from Tennessee State, averaged 5.8 points and 6.1 rebounds as a senior. Turner played for the Lakers 2007 Summer-Pro League team, averaging 7.4 points and 5.2 rebounds in five games.

Get the asterisk’s ready Phoenix. ** ESPN: Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy could face charges in Arizona’s most populous county if investigations by the league and FBI show that he deliberately miscalled two Phoenix Suns playoff games this year, authorities said. In federal court Wednesday in New York, Donaghy pleaded guilty to two felony charges Wednesday in connection with an [...]

Don’t like going off topic here, we usually like to keep all news Lakers related. But the Tim Donaghy story is something that can affect the entire league. ESPN.com: Former referee Tim Donaghy pleaded guilty to two felony charges Wednesday in an NBA betting scandal that rocked the league and raised questions about the integrity of games. Donaghy faces a [...]

Sporting News: There would be some coincidence if, indeed, Pacers forward Jermaine O’Neal is shipped to the Lakers to play alongside Kobe Bryant. After all, no pair of players has been more bizarrely uncertain of their desire to be traded this summer than Bryant and O’Neal. Bryant’s trade-me/Laker-for-life escapades have been well-documented. O’Neal’s aren’t nearly as whimsical or controversial as [...]

LA Times: For Lakers fans, it was the most intriguing on-paper pairing of the post-Garnett Pipe Dream portion of this long, hot, cruel summer: Kobe on “Kimmel!” Or, to quote the frenzied text messages that whipped around town on Wednesday: “KOBE SPEAKS!” It had been a long time waiting for SoCal summer sufferers. While old rivals such as the Trailblazers [...]

Thanks to Cyrus Santoriello for sending us the following piece. Somewhat of a reply to Shane Bien’s We Are All Lamar Odom article. To Trade or NOT to Trade Lamar Odom. There isn’t an easy answer to that query. To be a better judge, you must take a close look at Lamar Odom’s life and his journey coast-to-coast. “To trade [...]

Thanks to site contributer, Shane Bien for the following article. Before many of you run to your bank account to see if your expected 13.5 million dollar salary arrived yet, let me explain. Lamar Odom is an underachiever, and in many ways fans dislike him because he reminds us of ourselves. The majority of people in life are underachievers. Just [...]

UPDATE: Kevin Ding of the OC Register is starting soften his stance from this article. Had a funny feeling this would happen. The OC Register is reporting that the Lakers and Derek Fisher have finalized a deal. Is the MLE too much to pay for the former Laker guard? Everyone’s got an opinion. I’d like to be the first to [...]

I‘m sure Bill Walton is chilling somewhere in San Diego right now thinking to himself, “This is probably the greatest signing in all of Western civilization.” ESPN is reporting that Luke Walton has reached a 6 year, 30Mill deal with the Lakers. Seems like we didn’t overpay for young Skywalker afterall. The question now remains, when will he get his [...]

Shall we take a short break from all this Garnett madness, just for a second? Please? Okay good! Reports say that the Lakers have offered a deal to Euroleague MVP, Theodoros Papaloukas. They’re throwing most of the MLE at this guy. If he does dawn purple and gold next season, lets hope he isn’t another Sasha bust. I like knowing that [...]

Sorry everyone, we had to remove the Shoutbox. This site is taking up too much bandwidth on our shared server and the Shoutbox was just making it worse. When GoDaddy suspended our account ’cause we went over the limit with bandwidth, we switched over to another host. However, the Shoutbox was still a problem on our shared server. This means, [...]

It looks like Kevin Garnett is reaching out to our disgruntled star. Hopefully this goes well. Kobe, don’t mess this up my man. Rotoworld.com: ESPN’s Jim Gray is reporting that Kevin Garnett spoke to Kobe Bryant to find out if Kobe would stay with the Lakers if Garnett was acquired from the Timberwolves in a trade. The deal that would [...]

Special thanks to David Brickley for writing this take and giving us the privilege to add it to GetGarnett.com. If you have an article that is Lakers related and you know that it will interest our readers, feel free to e-mail us and will add it to the blog. Thanks! Being a diehard Kobe/Lakers fan I can’t get enough of [...]

I am a Lakers fan, and today is the longest day of my life. Wednesday could have been played out like a season of 24. The day started off like any other. Here I was, studying for finals… not knowing that Kobe Bryant was on ESPN radio with Stephen A. Smith. Then… at 9:48am PST I got the call, it [...]