You saw it. It was a trainwreck. The Lakers played about 1.25 good games in the NBA Finals, if you cobble together a quarter in Game 2, a half in Game 4, a quarter in Game 5 … It concluded with Boston winning the best-of-seven series in six games, the last in an embarrassing 131-92 […]

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Newsrooms seem to attract needlers and agitators. Sarcasm passes for everyday discourse. Maybe it comes from the cynicism that overtakes even the most idealistic of just-starting-out journalists. You may still have moments when you feel as if, “Hey, what I just wrote/edited is important.” But on the whole you spend your day sorting out lies, […]

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Let’s say Andrew Bynum comes back and looks like a real center. That pushes Pau Gasol to the power forward position and puts Lamar Odom … where? If the Lakers need another dependable scorer, and they do, and Odom can’t really play the small-forward spot and doesn’t have a perimeter game of any dependability … […]

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OK, sure, a game that ended up with a 39-point margin … probably wasn’t ever going to be the Lakers’ night. But watching the replay, I noted where the Celtics took over. When my sense of a long night for the Lakers became a conviction. It was 32-29 Boston. The Lakers had just gotten a […]

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