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The Los Angeles Lakers announced on their team website that guard Sasha Vujacic will miss 10-14 days with a fractured left ankle. The guard who signed a multi-year contract with the team in the off season was thought to have sprained the ankle the first day of training camp. A MRI revealed an avulsion fracture [...]
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Following the Lakers pre-season game against the Sacremento Kings in Las Vegas, Kobe Bryant was asked about a positive performance by Lamar Odom. He responded by telling the members of the media, It's preseason, man. Who the hell cares? Everyone knows Lamar will be there. Nobody's tripping.Tripping? Can somebody please remind Kobe that his formative years were spent roaming...
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Will an NBA star ever leave for Europe.
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Well looks like they are going to go after the big stars. I know Kobe's got a good life here but thats a pretty tempting offer for anyone.
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October 14, 2008
Is Kobe Bryant really going to leave the Lakers to play in Europe. Did all those rumors that started circulting earlier in the Summer about a big name player leaving for a big time FIBA ball club have truth to them?
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October 16, 2008
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.
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I logged in to ESPN this afternoon as a part of my daily routine and saw that Chad Ford posted an article about potential blockbuster trades. The Lakers were included in a few of these potential deals.
I highly recommend taking a look at the entire article: "Trade talk already hot and heavy".
If you don't have [...]
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October 15, 2008
According to a press release by the LakersA late yesterday afternoon, Sasha Vujacic has an vulsion fracture of the left ankle and will be kept away fromA all basketball related activities for 10-14 days.
Team medical staff have said that it is a pre-existing problem for Vujacic that has no relation to the sprained ankle he suffered the [...]
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So your an NBA allstar, MVP, 3 time champion and Gold Medalist and with the economy going into shambles you have accomplished pretty much everything there is to in the NBA right? So why not go overseas for 3 years and play for Greece? Well for one they wanna offer you 83 MILLION dollars nontaxable!!! Let me say that again, NONTAXABLE!! Which means you go overseas, enjoy the european...
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