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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Casper Ware, the star point guard at Long Beach State, the kid who scored a career-high 28 points in the 86-76 spanking of 10th-ranked Pitt on the Panthers’ home floor …
… is getting a shout-out from a significant website.

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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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I was aware of this, a bit. I clearly remember, X number of years ago (during that short period when the proudly clueless Dutchman Ruud Gullit was coaching the Galaxy), having this pointed out to me.
Gullit was talking to a few of us after a practice session, and he just launched into a Jeremiad about […]

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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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I love relegation. I knew about it, of course, long before I got off the plane in Abu Dhabi in the heavily Euro-influenced UAE. But seeing it in action … brings home what fun it is and how the NBA, the NFL, MLB could all be improved.
Not that I expect this ever could happen. But […]

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