csprtContainer(); The Bulls suffered their first home loss, the Lakers & Clippers scuffled in LA, Kevin Love got paid — but Eric Gordon didn’t. CineSport’s Noah Coslov & Chris Sheridan of SheridanHoops.com discuss the latest NBA news.
Circle your calendars: April 4. We can definitely call it a rivalry now, this thing the Clippers and Lakers have going between them. That might have been the Game of the Season last night on the one month anniversary of the start of the NBA season, a chippy, physical, psychodramatic 96-91 victory by the Lakers over their co-tenants at the Staples Center. No blood was spilled, but there was pushing, shoving, wrestling, cursing, six technical fouls, a flagrant, an ejection … and
Wednesday’s best game features the offensively challenged Los Angeles Lakers hosting the L.A. Clippers, who are trying to win a season series against the Lakers for only the third time in franchise history. But don’t call it a rivalry, yet. Kobe Bryant had no problem scoring (42) in a losing effort against the Clippers in their first meeting this season. But despite Bryant leading the NBA with 30.5 points a game, the rest of the Lakers’ offense has been a box-office dud. Pau
Will the New York Knicks fire Mike D’Antoni? Should Kobe Bryant & the Lakers panic as they keep failing to score 100? And are the Indiana Pacers to be taken for real? CineSport’s Noah Coslov & Chris Sheridan of SheridanHoops.com discuss. //
Sunday night’s best game starts after the football is over and has the surprising Indiana Pacers visiting the Los Angeles Lakers, who are in a favorable stretch of their schedule and have an opportunity to fix some of their issues on offense. The first issue is scoring. Despite having the NBA’s leading scorer in Kobe Bryant, the Lakers are just 21st in offense at 92.1 points and dead last in the NBA in 3-point percentage at 25.7 percent. Derek Fisher is 7-of-29,
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If Jeffrey Loria (owner of the Miami Marlins baseball team) comes down with a nasty cough and cold, we’ll know who to blame. None other than LeBron James, who took a sick day in the morning but was well enough in the evening to break the 30-point barrier for the eighth time this season, dropping 31 along with eight rebounds and eight assists in the Miami Heat’s 98-87 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. The Heat were the aggressors throughout the first
I feel you, Stan Van Gundy. Whenever I type “Dwight Howard,” I can feel it getting relayed to you in the form of endless questions about the “distractions” facing Dwight and his teammates. I can see you doing a full eye-roll complete with backward head tilt. I can hear you from here: “Would it be possible for us squeeze in our season between rumors about something that may not happen and if it does, won’t happen for months?” I’ve been on the beat. I understand