Laker Nation

L.A. Times: Andrew Bynum is experiencing the vocal pro-Celtics crowd, the intense media presence, the NBA on its largest stage. All that’s missing is the playing time. Bynum’s seat is at the end of the Lakers’ bench, in a suit. He’s making the most of it, trying to soak in his surroundings while hoping to play a more active role [...]

Philly.com: THIS WAS 1995-96, the 76ers’ 18-victory season of first-round draft choice Jerry Stackhouse and the team of Clarence Weatherspoon, Vernon Maxwell, Trevor Ruffin, Shawn Bradley, Jeff Malone, Sharone Wright and Derrick Alston. And, during the preseason workouts and scrimmages at Saint Joseph’s University . . . Lower Merion High senior Kobe Bryant. “He was better than anyone we had,” [...]

IF the Lakers lose, how about they send some of that wine to the Lakers Nation offices, I’m sure we’ll need it. KCRA3: Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are making a friendly wager on the outcome of the NBA finals pitting the Boston Celtics against the Los Angeles Lakers. If the Celtics win, Schwarzenegger has promised to [...]

Lakers coach clearly has more experience in big games, but even he won’t give himself an edge. L.A. Times: This is the NBA’s version of the prince, on the cusp of possibly becoming a king, against the pauper. This is Lakers Coach Phil Jackson striving for an NBA-record 10 championships, one for each finger, and pass Celtics icon Red Auerbach [...]

Just like Ron Artest, it seems like B. Diddy also wants to be part of the Purple & Gold since his already interviewing for the job. Do it, Mitch!

O.C. Register: If you really think the Lakers will win this NBA Finals, you must think they can win Game 6 and/or 7 in Boston. No one has won a championship that late in a series, on the road, since Miami at Dallas in 2006, and, before that, Chicago at Utah in 1998. No one has won a Finals Game [...]

L.A. Times: If, as Jerry West says, the NBA’s greatest rivalry wasn’t a rivalry at first since the Lakers never won in the ’60s and the Boston Celtics never lost, it already seemed bigger than mere life or death, at least in West’s life. Nor did the zeal diminish in their ’80s rematches when the Showtime Lakers and the Larry [...]

Yahoo!: Jerry West has had a front-row seat to watch the evolution of Kobe Bryant: precocious teenager, three-time NBA champion, angry superstar and beloved MVP. One of the game’s all-time greats himself, West can relate to some of what Bryant has experienced. And the man known as Mr. Clutch understands what separates Bryant from the rest. “He’s a Picasso in [...]

Where in the world is the Los Angeles Lakers? Click here and find out. Pretty neat. It has a live map and up-to-date activity map (Swift Air Charter Boeing 737-400 with 68 first class seats).

Fisher will guard Rondo and Bryant will be on Allen, but the frontcourt matchups may take some maneuvering. L.A. Times: The tradition has been well-documented, from Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, but who’s going to guard whom in the latest version of Lakers vs. Celtics? The teams start the NBA Finals on Thursday, but [...]

Special thanks to MPLaker for submitting his take to the Lakers Nation and giving us the rights to post it on the blog. Once again, if you have your own take and want to see it on TLN, feel free to e-mail it to us at Articles@theLakersNation.com. Hollywood has turned to comic book heroes and old television shows to help [...]

Good to know the NBA is promoting their Superstar with a page with pretty much all the cool media and information you’ll ever want want to know about the Mamba. Check it out! NBA: On the left side of the page you’ll find links to our coverage of his days in the NBA and on the right side you’ll find [...]

Please check below for the series schedule. The Lakers do not have home court advantage for the finals. The series has a 2-3-2 format and the Lakers will play games 3, 4 and 5 at STAPLES Center. All games of the series will be televised exclusively on ABC. You can listen to all games on the radio on AM 570 [...]

ESPN: I have some good news and some bad news for you. The good news? We’re one more Boston victory away from an improbable Celtics-Lakers matchup in the NBA Finals that, under normal circumstances, would have me so giddy I’d be walking around Los Angeles randomly re-enacting the McHale-Rambis clothesline on unsuspecting pedestrians. The bad news? Nobody is beating the [...]