Laker Nation

Usually here at the Lakers Nation, we do "2nd Look" for game winners (let's get real, Kobe Bryant clips) and dunks. But today, we'd like to give a "2nd Look" at the closing minute of last night's ah-mazing game...

6 down, and 10 to go as the Lakers take care of the Jazz in Game 2, and look to take a commanding 3-0 series lead up in Utah on Saturday. In this episode the fellas discuss… Game 2 recap, has a defensive switch been flipped? And much more!

After every game, Kobe Bryant makes it look like he's burrowing his feet in soft, relaxing sand during a day at the beach. After the Lakers' game in Toronto this season, Andrew Bynum tried it.//

I spoke with a young man today about the Lakers. He's 18 years old and lives and dies with Laker wins and losses. I was talking to him about yesterday's win over the Utah Jazz and he said to me, "I was just waiting for the Lakers to blow them out...but it never happened."

Round 2 and it's the same old song, as the Los Angeles Lakers get the early edge on the Utah Jazz. G-Small and D-Bricks recap Game 1, as the Lakers are only 11 victories away from another NBA Championship!

The Los Angeles Lakers shake the rumbling from the Oklahoma City Thunder to move on to next round of the NBA Playoffs, and G-Small and D-Bricks get you ready for the next 12 victories.

Ron Artest has never won an NBA title, but he knows championship- level basketball when he sees it.

Our Los Angeles Lakers are now 18-0 in Game 5's when the series is tied 2-2. You can now take that finger off the panic button. David Brickley gives you extensive an Game 5 post-game coverage as the Lakers beat the Thunder 111-87 to take a 3-2 series advantage.

If things had continued to go badly for the Lakers on Tuesday night in Staples Center, here's the really bad news, they would have Ron Artest under contract for four more years.

Let's play a game. Read the quote below and try to fill in the blanks: "The ______ keep surprising everyone but themselves, and now they've got a chance to pull off the ultimate stunner: knocking out the Los Angeles Lakers. The scrappy, undermanned _____ pushed the Lakers to the limit in their series with a decisive victory..."

That was disgusting… Yet, David Brickley and Gregory Small will dive into Lakers Talk and discuss what went wrong as the Thunder waxed the Lakers from start to finish in Game 4.

ESPN: At the time last summer when Kevin Durant suggested the Oklahoma City Thunder should be shooting for the playoffs this season, it was considered an outlandish statement. But look at them now. Durant scored 22 points, Russell Westbrook added 18 points and eight rebounds, and the Thunder evened the first-round series against the Los Angeles Lakers with a 110-89 [...]

A video of maybe the craziest Kobe Bryant fan we've ever seen. You'll laugh at this one...

Forum Blue & Gold: It’s funny how a loss can plant seeds of doubt into the minds of fans and media. In game three, the Lakers pretty much controlled the game until the closing minutes of the third quarter when they allowed a run that made the game a dog fight for final 12 minutes. In that closing period, the [...]