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I hate surprise birthday parties, everyone lying to you and then jumping out and yelling "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!" while you stand there with a Tyler Hansbrough deer-in-the-headlights expression, completely unaware that you have just been had by your closest friends and family...

Over the past year and a half you should have a pretty good idea of what I do around here. I try and either be as ridiculous as possible with some wild allegory or just be unabashedly absurd with grandiose verbiage and sardonic quips.

Andrew Rafner therapeutically hammers out all his issues with Andrew Bynum in hopes of a happier, more productive postseason on the third installment of the TLN Shoutbox!

TLN's very own Andrew Rafner continues to wage his war on Andrew Bynum after pictures of Bynum at the Playboy Mansion surface.

Andrew Rafner brings you the first edition of TLN Shoutbox; The TLN Shoutbox is a Vidcast designed to spur enlightened Socratic discussion concerning Lakers Basketball. So, after watching, leave comments and participate in the discourse!

Section 316 is an essay series by TheLakersNation.com Writer Andrew Rafner. Andrew will explore a theme relating to the deeper world of Lakers basketball. We now present...

Section 316 is a weekly essay series by TheLakersNation.com Writer Andrew Rafner. Andrew will explore a theme relating to the deeper world of Lakers basketball.

Section 316 is a weekly essay series by TheLakersNation.com Writer Andrew Rafner. Each Friday Andrew will explore a theme relating to the deeper world of Lakers basketball.

Section 316 is a weekly essay series by TLN Writer Andrew Rafner. Each Friday Andrew will explore a theme relating to the deeper world of Lakers basketball.

If you did not know this already, the Maloofs like winning. They like winning very much. With their Kings floundering at 5-16, it appears to the Brothers Maloof as if there is no light at the seemingly endless rebuilding tunnel. It was not long ago that it was the Kings and the Lakers atop the Western Conference, fighting tooth and [...]

Another Keith Olbermann-style Special Comment on Laker Basketball: After eighteen games and sixteen victories, the denizens of the Lakers Nation, should be beginning, for all intents and purposes, to hear the sounds of settling. After eighteen games and sixteen victories, we should have a firm grasp who this team is and how we should expect them to play on any [...]

Once an exciting misfit bunch, led by their clown prince Gilbert Arenas, the Wizards (3-13) have lost their way.

Against my better judgment, I must say that the Indiana Pacers post-Reggie Miller are somewhat alluring...

When the New Jersey Nets (6-6) traded Jason Kidd to Dallas in exchange for Devin Harris last February, the chorus resonating through the world of NBA prognosticators was: “Why?”