More basketball!
I wasn’t planning to go this way. Though I did think, the day before the Lakers played in Miami, that the Heat would win, no problem, and considered writing that just to show my powers of analysis … but then it got too late, and the Heat led by 21 after three before winning […]

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I have seen pieces of NBA games, this season, over here in the UAE, and the whole of the Lakers-Bulls game on Christmas Day.
I have seen all of the scores, however. Some former colleagues and I are in about the third decade of an NBA fantasy league (I have both LeBron and Kobe; feeling good!)  […]

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Kobe Bryant ranks third in the NBA in scoring, so far, at 26.4 points per game. But the Lakers are 4-4, and are beginning to have the feel of a .500 team.
Are these concepts related?
Well, yes. In that the Lakers have managed to win four games … but have contrived to lose four.
It seems increasingly […]

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I can’t believe I’m writing a blog post with the “Kardashian” name in the headline. But this is about sports. Really.
A news item last week revealed that Kris Humphries is the most-disliked player in the NBA, according to recent surveys of the American public.
Fifty percent of all respondents identified Kris Humphries as an NBA […]

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I didn’t really plan to watch the Lakers in their season-opener on Christmas Day.
The game didn’t start until 2:30 p.m. in Los Angeles (which was early December 26 here in the UAE), and I prefer my sports-from-the-other-side-of-the-world to end about that time. Not start.
But the night kinda dragged on, and when I got to […]

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Generous of me, yes, to allow the Clippers to have Chris Paul — since the trade is already made and I’m not the erratic and capricious commissioner of the NBA who can step in and quash a deal.
Lakers fans will be agitated about this trade, for two reasons: That Chris Paul will not be wearing […]

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Huge day for sports in greater Los Angeles. The Angels signed Albert Pujols to the second-biggest contract in baseball history and the Lakers traded for Chris Paul — only to see the NBA commissioner kill the deal.
But being “big news” doesn’t mean also mean it is “good news.”
One of these stories is bad news. The […]

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I believe the 2011-12 NBA season should not happen. At all.
It’s not as if the NBA is missed, which is probably pretty damning.
Do you know anyone — anyone — who is talking about how the lack of NBA games is tearing them up? Or even vaguely disturbing them?
That, then, is a league that may as […]

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For the first time since 2007, we have an NBA Finals without the Lakers in it. Seems a bit strange. Almost not-quite-real. But we may have to get used to it — Kobe isn’t a kid anymore, and Mike Brown doesn’t seem like an inspired hire as coach.
So, Miami Heat vs. Dallas Mavericks?

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Even over here in the UAE, we know the Lakers are being dissected and deconstructed, and the prevailing notion seems to be that they need to be disassembled.
My first thoughts, and these go back to when the deficit to Dallas was 2-0, were “maybe they do need to blow it up.” But then I began […]

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