Laker Nation

There are times when it’s necessary to write a couple of paragraphs explaining what you’re about to see. This, well… is clearly not one of them. Just watch the video. According to Lamar’s website: “Two days before Valentine’s Day — on February 12 — Lamar and Khloe will celebrate the release of their unisex fragrance, Unbreakable, with a launch party [...]

It appears that Smush Parker ate… well, Smush Parker. Parker is playing in Greece for Iraklis Thessaloniki. Per this report, he dropped 26/3/3 in a game last week.

This morning, ESPN's Marc Stein was hush-hush on his sources, but made his point deafeningly clear: Ron Artest wants out of Los Angeles.

Despite last night’s listless overtime victory over the sub-.500 Houston Rockets, the anxiety surrounding the Lakers continues. Following yesterday’s Farmers Field news conference in downtown L.A., Lakers legend Magic Johnson chimed in on the Lakers recent struggles, and on Kupchak’s recent comments regarding a trade possibility before the deadline.

In shocking news, Andrew Bynum missed yesterday's practice with soreness in his left knee (not the knee he had surgery on during the offseason). According to reports, he spent most of Monday's practice with Lakers trainer Gary Vitti.

The reasons to dislike KG are piling up like pounds on Rosie O'Donnell. According to a J.A. Adande tweet during Sunday's Lakers, Celtics game, a Lakers ballboy asked KG for an autograph, to which Garnett replied:

For years, Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak has ducked the glaring spotlight of the Los Angeles media. After another demoralizing home loss to a championship caliber team, he finally broke the silence to NBA.com writer Scott Howard-Coope in a piece posted on NBA.com a couple of hours ago. Here are a couple notable excerpts from Kupchak:

We're going out on a limb here and assuming you've already heard about Kobe's movie, "The Black Mamba". Here's the third trailer installment in the series. Enjoy!

ESPN TrueHoop columnist Henry Abbot penned a rather controversial piece this morning (here) on Kobe Bryant’s supposed inability to perform in crunch time. Here are a couple excerpts from that column...

We all know Laker ticket prices are higher than Whitney Houston... (I mean her voice, come on now). If you live in So-Cal and aren't hooking up with the CEO of a multi-million dollar company, you're probably not going to be walking by Jack on the way to your courtside seats any time soon. Thankfully, Fox Sports West: Prime Ticket will be bringing back their 'Courtside View' telecast for Friday's game vs. Sacramento (7:30pm PT).

According to Forbes Magazine, the addition of Amar'e Stoudemire turned out to be more economically useful than another Larry O’Brien trophy. The Knicks are the champions of the bottom line – the franchise was appraised at $655 million, up a surprising 12% from last year, despite losing out on in the LeBron James sweepstakes. The defending champion Lakers came in just behind New York at $643 million, up 6% from last year.

We've shown you a pair of trailers for Kobe's upcoming movie, "The Black Mamba." Nike announced today that the world premier will take place on Saturday, February 19th at 1am PT.

Last week, the trailer to Kobe Bryant's movie leaked (see it here). This week, we've got another 'leaked' trailer for you.

It's crazy to think that it's been half a decade since Kobe spent 48 minutes locked on 'Eff-You' mode and smashed the Toronto Raptors with 81 points. In my opinion, it was the single greatest offensive performance in professional sports history and the ultimate “everyone shut-up and just hang on to my cape” moment.