The 2008 calendar year is coming to and end and this is a great time to review the various accomplishments of the Lakers players. The purpose of this article is to go down the list, review the stats of each player from the end of last season to the first third of this season, and summarize what the year has been like. Trevor Ariza – Trevor joined the Lakers midway through last season when th...

There is truly only one way to describe the game against the Golden State Warriors: Priceless The adventure started early in the game as Pau Gasol had his back to the basket with the ball about 4 feet out on the right wing. The double team came early he looked over his shoulder and saw Bynum floating down the paint toward the basket. Pau threw the ball over his shoulder right into the arms of the ...

Tonight is the final game before the highly anticipated Christmas Day game agains the Boston Celtics. This four game road trip has been disastorous and not a single fan can be happy how it’s gone. The trip started off with back to back losses in Florida to the Heat and the Magic. After a day off the Lakers faced the Memphis Grizzlies last night and were barely able to pull out a win. To me, ...

ESPN has JA Adande working a chat room with many NBA fans on their website. Most of you know these chats take place on a daily basis with all the various NBA analysts employed by ESPN. Today’s chat featured Adande, a former Lakers analyst with the Los Angeles Times. The following are the questions and answers that were regarding the Lakers. Michael Oakland, ca: True or False: Trevor Ariza is...

Derek FisherLast Season: When the Lakers re-acquired Derek Fisher from Utah prior to the 2007-08 season, the team surely was expecting the consistency that’s marked Fish’s 12 years in the NBA. But 82 starts, 11.7 points, nearly three assists and great marks from the foul line (8th in the NBA) and three-point line (21st) exceeded expectations. We’d be remiss not to mention Fisher’s importa...

According to the Los Angeles Daily News, Derek Fisher knows what the Lakers need. Lakers’ guard Derek Fisher believes that the team needs to improve their defense in order to challenge for the NBA title. “We have to defend a whole lot better,” Fisher said. “We want a team that when we have to get stops to finish a game or finish a quarter, we get them.” “We just...

The NBA has really taken a turn for the worst. They fine players at the wrong times. They allow betting scandals to develop. They set themselves up for conspiracy theories. They make stupid rules. Why doesn’t the NBA league office realize that the less they do, the better the game will be? First off, I’d like to get something off my chest that’s been bothering me since it was fir...