It is not clear to me where this idea originated, but it’s ridiculous: Kevin Durant ready to sign on with the Golden State Warriors as a free agent this summer. I know this is a slow time on the U.S. sports calendar, and we might be willing to talk about really stupid ideas, given we […]

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In the previous post I fretted over the possibility that the Golden State Warriors could break the Los Angeles Lakers’ record NBA winning streak of 33 games. Within hours of that post going up … the Warriors lost, for the first time this season. And I will take some credit for that.

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Kobe Bryant’s decision on Sunday to announce his retirement, effective at the end of the current season, was timely and proper and even a bit quixotic, coming as it did in the form of a poem written by the player and posted on a somewhat obscure players forum. What he addressed in those words was […]

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How many more games do the Lakers give Kobe Bryant to demonstrate he has something left? How many more games does Kobe give Kobe? He was 1-for-14 with four points last night in the 111-77 humiliation at the hands of the champion Golden State Warriors, who set an NBA record by winning their 16th game […]

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It was a week ago that the Los Angeles Clippers, the city’s eternal “other” team, looked bound for the Western Conference finals. Much to our surprise. Up 3-1 on the Houston Rockets after a blowout victory in Game 4 … it was going to happen! The Clippers in the conference finals for the first time! […]

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Relegation would be a handy thing to have in U.S. sports. Most Americans, I think, understand the concept, by now. In nearly all global soccer leagues that aren’t Major League Soccer, two or three teams at the bottom of the standings go down to the next-lowest league. Which is pretty much a disaster. (And the […]

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When we left Southern California for Abu Dhabi, in October of 2009, the Los Angeles Clippers sucked. They had always sucked. They would always suck. It was in the stars. They were poorly run, under slum lord Donald Sterling, and unlucky as well, as the injury to their top draft pick of 2009, Blake Griffin, […]

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Late last year, I went off on the sloppy usage of “icon” and “iconic”. It was in regard to Vin Scully and a media release (not written by Vinny) about his plan to return to the Dodgers broadcast booth in 2014. And the intellectually bankrupt Dodgers PR crew used both icon and iconic within the […]

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The two times I have seen Zach LaVine on a basketball court he looked like a world-beater. I was at Staples Center, back in November, when he scored 28 points on 11-of-14 shooting, including 4-of-4 from three-point range, in a one-point victory over the Lakers. And then I saw LaVine’s impressive victory in the Slam […]

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Knee surgeries. A snapped Achilles tendon. A broken leg. Kobe Bryant fought back from those to return to the Lakers. But now a torn rotator cuff? In his right shoulder? In his shooting arm? At age 36? We may have just seen the last NBA game Kobe Bryant will play, which is sad … but […]

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