Sunday, December 28, 2008
Lakers cruise past Golden State
Kobe Bryant scored 31 points, Derek Fisher added 19 and the Lakers rolled to a 130-113 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Sunday night. There was no letdown by the Lakers after their intense Christmas Day victory over Boston in the teams' first meeting since the NBA finals last summer, won by the Celtics.
Sasha Vujacic had 17 points, Pau Gasol had 13 points, nine rebounds and seven assists, and Andrew Bynum chipped...read full article
Lakers vs Warriors Highlights
Lakers #1 Fan of the Night vs Celtics on Christmas Day
The Craziest Basketball Dunks
Kobe’s Shot Counter
It’s a tough question, because different games have completely different flows, and demand completely different things from various players. Perhaps the best way to answer it is to ask assistant coach Brian Shaw, who played with Bryant and now coaches him. We’ll get to that in a second, but the other way to shed some light on the issue is to crunch a few...read full article
Injury Report Jordan Farmar
Each knee has a pair of menisci, lateral or towards the outside of the knee, and medial, or on the inside. The two disc shaped structures provide some stability to the knee joint, but mainly serves as soft cushioning material between the tibia and the femur that helps to absorb shock in the joint. The problem is that the material must be pliable in order to serve that purpose, so sometimes when the knee is twisted awkwardly, the tissue can tear.
There are all different kinds of meniscus tears in athletes, and just as many surgical options on how to fix them. Some players won't even feel them initially, only becoming symptomatic after months or years of chronic exposure. Obviously that's the best case scenario. Some are so small that they can just be removed (a partial menisectomy) and the frayed ends shaved down to maintain a smooth surface. Others can tear so badly that knees become locked at certain angles because the tear impedes movement of the two bones. In these cases you...read full article
Lakers' Pau Gasol tries to flex for success
"You have somewhere else to be?" I said.
"Where?" I said.
"The weight room," he said.
I gasped. I froze. I could not have been more shocked had Pau Gasol told me he...read full article
Letdown is a concern for the Lakers after beating Celtics
"I don't know if any game ever matches just the excitement, the pomp and circumstance of Christmas afternoon," Derek Fisher admitted. "I mean, the fans were there at 1 o'clock and the game was at 2. So tomorrow nobody is going to be there at 5:30 [for a 6:30 game]. It's just different. We understand that." The Lakers can look at how the Celtics lost to the Warriors on Friday night in Oakland as an indicator of what...read full article