It’s been about half a full season and the beginning of the first full season for Pau Gasol in a Los Angeles Lakers uniform. How has he done so far? Pretty well. When Andrew Bynum went down last season with his knee injury, the Lakers traded Kwame Brown and two future first round picks for Pau Gasol. That is the common misconception. At the time, the trade seemed completely lopsided and look...

Pau GasolLast Season: In the biggest regular-season trade of 2007-08, Gasol (and a future second-round pick) came to the Lakers courtesy of the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, Aaron McKie, the draft rights to Marc Gasol and two future first-round picks (well done, Mr. Kupchak). Pau was fantastic in 27 regular season games for L.A., averaging 18.8 points, 7.8 reb...

Tonight is the night. East meets West. Or should I say West meets West. Western America vs Western Europe. Los Angeles Lakers vs Regal FC Barcelona. For the first time, the Lakers will be facing a European team in their preseason. Other NBA franchises have spent time in Europe for training camp and have faced off against teams outside of the US. Tonight is the Lakers first chance at international ...

There are finally some good things coming out of Lakers Training Camp. Apparently Lamar Odom is finally getting the hang of things and starting to perform closer to the level the coaching staff expects of him. Phil Jackson had a few interesting things to say about Lamar. “He’s starting to get a feel for it,” Jackson said. “He’s starting to play basketball. He looks like he’s playin...

I have recently been posting plenty of text that I have been getting from the Laker site. Mike Trudell constantly posts interviews that I truly love to read and am jelous of those that he gets to interview. Hopefully, soon enough, LABallTalk.com will have the opportunity to get in the locker room or at least Lakers practices in order to get insider news. For now, enjoy this great video of Trudell ...

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 Lakers had a new member join them at training camp on Day 4. Sun Yue, the Chinese 6’9″ point guard has come back to the team that brought him to America. He suffered mono and was out of work outs thus far. “The doctor said that I’m just recovered, so I still need a lot of time to rest, but I didn’t want to miss much in camp,” Yue said. Phil Jackson and the training staff ar...

Training camp has officially begun and the Lakers are in El Segundo ready to go to work. As many may know, this team is surrounded by the glamours of Hollywood, so surely enough, the first thing to do, is enjoy a long day of media questioning. Thanks to Lakers.com, you are all welcome to take a look at the interviews with Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, and Andrew Bynum. In other news, Phil Jackson has ex...

I have read thousands of reports on the Lakers since Thursdays game one loss in Boston and have come up with several conclusions. The first is that many reporters have no idea what they’re talking about and their opinion is ridiculously useless and should be taped off with caution in order to protect readers from wasting a single second of their life skimming an article about Paul Pierce bei...