The Miami Heat’s winning streak ended at 27 tonight, in a loss at Chicago, and I like to think the surviving members of the 1971-72 Lakers are celebrating somewhere with a bottle of champagne. Just as the players of the NFL’s unbeaten 1972 Miami Dolphins allegedly do when the latest team to get close to […]

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Back in December, I confessed to my deep and only semi-rational need to see Adrian Peterson fall short of Eric Dickerson’s single-season NFL rushing record. (And he did, in part because I willed it; that’s how fans think.) Here’s one I probably care about more: The Lakers’ NBA record of 33 consecutive victories.

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A person leaves town … switches states .. crosses an ocean … and eventually his sports preferences morph. It’s one of those things that you don’t realize until you do a sort of internal check. “Which teams’ results do I follow? Which have I stopped tracking? Which teams can make me feel a little better […]

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This makes me smile. If not laugh. If not snort in derision. I saw the final minutes of the Lakers’ 107-102 loss to the Clippers tonight, and when ESPN went back to the studio, the question was posed: “Is Los Angeles a Clippers town now?” This is how you will know if L.A. has become […]

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The Lakers hired Mike D’Antoni. He will be a far better coach than Mike Brown, who was driving the Lakers over a cliff. (Or abandoned the driver’s seat of the vehicle which subsequently was headed over a cliff. He never really seemed in charge, did he.) I like Mike D’Antoni. I am convinced he is […]

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This has to be something everyone who follows the Lakers has been saying the past few weeks, but really, honest, I was thinking it in the summer of 2011: Mike Brown as Lakers coach? What an awful idea! Today, he became a bad idea, but in the rear-view mirror.

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This team has to be better than this, doesn’t it? I can envision Los Angeles Lakers fans saying that, back in SoCal. This 0-3 thing on a team with Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, Steve Nash and Pau Gasol … it can’t be what they really are about. Can it? I was so impressed by Mitch […]

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A nine-player deal, the Dodgers taking on hundreds of millions in salary commitments, including those of Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford and Josh Beckett. And the takeaway? Los Angeles has just rediscovered it is a major sports market.

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As a displaced fan of most Los Angeles sports teams, I will take some time out from the latest travelogue to give credit where it is due: To the veteran management team of the Lakers. And to the new management team of the Dodgers. Both franchises have been proactive, and imaginative, and as fans of […]

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Let’s review the State of the Los Angeles Lakers at the end of the 2011-12 season: An old, slow team, with no No. 1 draft pick, a shallow bench and all sorts of money tied up in a handful of guys. Their star, Kobe Bryant, would turn 34 before the coming season, their power forward, […]

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