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Kobe Bryant has a solid shot at winning the MVP title again, but ...
11 hours ago by
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The Lakers are on a roll, and the shooting guard has been a huge part of it. But he's got serious competition: Denver forward Carmelo Anthony and Cleveland forward LeBron James, for starters.
Mike Bresnahan covers the Lakers for The Times. Readers' questions about...
Top 5 Dunks: The Shannon Brown Show
10 days ago by
Lake Show Life
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We’re not even ¼ of the way through the NBA season and Shannon Brown has already put together enough backboard shakers to have seismologists tracking his whereabouts.
Brown is doing more than moving needles at Cal Tech. He’s also moving a lot of butts out of seats in NBA arenas...
Kobe Bryant in Rhinestones
14 hours ago by
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WHY YOU NEED IT: One can't write anything about Kobe Bryant's flaws as a basketball player, because, inevitably, some of the legions who hold him up as the paragon of basketball performance will stumble upon the offending words and throw a fit. No one would dispute he's...
Artest Says His Thanksgiving Has Been Ruined
8 days ago by
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So, how have you spent your Thanksgiving holiday today? Gathered ’round the hearth with friends and family? Enjoying a turkey feast followed by the inevitable background football game? Engrossing yourself in NFL games you could care less about to escape Uncle Harry’s halotosis...
Ron Artest Clears Up Misunderstanding About Drinking During Games (Not Really)
14 hours ago by
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Ron Artest was a little embarrassed about the interview he did with The Sporting News. In that interview, he admitted to drinking during games and wanting to fight Ben Wallace. Wow, I can understand why he would want to clear that up since those are some pretty controversial statements...
Jordan Farmar's aggressive play helps Lakers
4 days ago by
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The reserve point guard scored a season-high 15 points in Sunday night's win over New Jersey and had a memorable blocked shot.
For Jordan Farmar, the key word was "aggressive."
Pau And Placido Make Beautiful Music Together
SoCal's newest 'It' Couple are Lakers Center Pau Gasol and opera legend Plácido Domingo. They've become fast friends because...it's L.A., who the f**k knows? Well, they're both Spanish, for one. And that's all I've got. But for whatever reason, they...
The Lakers' Pau Gasol gets an opera assist from Plácido Domingo
3 days ago by
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The two Spaniards bond at the Music Center as well as at Staples Center.
Last week, on one of his rare evenings not spent in makeup sweating under a spotlight, Plácido Domingo watched from a luxury box as the resurgent L.A. Lakers dusted off the New York Knicks 100-90 at Staples...
Lakers' Artest spoke about drinking to help others
1 day ago by
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Although Ron Artest's streetball games in New York usually included breaks for water or Gatorade, the Queens teenager knew other players who would recharge with Olde English malt liquor.
Those bad examples stayed in his mind while he went through college at St. John's and...
Thoughts from the Third Row: Commissioner needs to take Stern action on Artest
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Ron Artest: "I used to drink Hennessy at halftime"
2 days ago by
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Ron Artest shared his most intimate thoughts and memories with the Sporting News. Here are some excerpts, the most starting being his admission that he drank cognac during halftime of Bulls games. Warning - just reading these might make you lose your mind.In a lengthy interview for...
Lakers' small guys pummel big guys in scrimmage
7 days ago by
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The guards and small forwards, led by the three-point shooting of Ron Artest, defeated the power forwards and centers, 145-100.
Good thing the Lakers' big men don't stray far from the lane.
Sasha Vujacic says he's ready to crank up the Machine
3 days ago by
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Only being allotted 'garbage time' isn't helping him to raise the level of his play, the Lakers guard says.
Only being allotted 'garbage time' isn't helping him to raise the level of his play, the Lakers guard says.
Ron Artest Spoke Out About His Drinking, You Know, For The Kids
13 hours ago by
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Now I get it. Ron Artest’s recent comments about when with the Chicago Bulls, he would walk down to a liquor store near the United Center in Chicago to buy Hennessy so he could drink at halftime during games was all part of a grand plan of his to help out our nation’s...
Ol’ Dirty Ron Artest
2 days ago by
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It all makes more sense now. Last week, I was going to overlook the above footage of Ron Artest on Kimmel in his skibbies. Figured “Nah, he’s just a fool.” Skipped the story about him and his half-sister pulling a welfare scam in Indianapolis, only adding it to the...
Artest Used to Drink Alcohol at Halftime
by Matt MooreFiled under: Bulls, LakersThe fact that Ron Artest says outlandish stuff is not really noteworthy. For the man called "Crazy Pills" to actually say something which shocks the NBA world means it's pretty far out there. He'd have to say something which...
LeBron James falls behind Kobe Bryant on Sporting News list
1 day ago by
Cleveland.com
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APWestern All-Star Kobe Bryant, No. 24, of the Los Angeles Lakers, knocks the ball away from Eastern All-Star LeBron James, No. 23, during the first half of the NBA All-Star basketball game last season.LeBron James won the NBA's MVP...
Pau Gasol is progressing nicely for Lakers
5 days ago by
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The 7-footer who missed the first 11 games with a strained right hamstring notches his third double-double in four games.
Pau Gasol has played in just four regular-season games, each one better than the one before.
Ron Artest’s Drinking Comments, Take 2
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No, he’s not saying he was taken out of context. He still contends he did drink during his tenure with the Bulls. But there was a method to the madness: it was as a cautionary tale to youngsters about how he wasn’t proud of how immature he was when he first came into the...
8th Annual Chick Hearn Night
On Sunday, November 22rd the Los Angeles Lakers celebrated Chick Hearn Night during the Lakers-Thunder game at STAPLES Center. Chick Hearn Night has been celebrated at the Lakers home game closest to Chicks birthday, every season since the Lakers Hall of
VIDEO: KOBE BRYANT BEHIND BACKBOARD CIRCUS SHOT
11 days ago by
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Kobe Bryant has had more than his fair share of ridiculous shot attempts in his career. But he trumped himself last night when the Lakers took on the Thunder. In the first quarter, Kobe was forced towards the baseline before he threw up a prayer from [...]
Odom's energy concerns Jackson
5 days ago by
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Lamar Odom has experienced a drop-off in scoring since returning to the bench.
Lamar Odom has experienced a drop-off in scoring since returning to the bench.
Ron Artest Got Liquored Up During Games as a Bull
2 days ago by
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Ron Artest is famous for being insane. Did he really see someone stab someone to death over a basketball game as a kid? Did he really run into the stands over spilled beer? Does he really think he’s a good rapper? It’s basically accepted as a fact that he took a...
So Ron Artest Used To Drink At Halftime During His Bulls Tenure?
2 days ago by
Mouthpiece Blog
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Yes, according to the latest edition of the Sporting News, he drank at halftime of some games during his 1999-2002 stint with the Bulls:
“I used to drink Hennessy … at halftime,” Artest says in the interview, which hits newsstands this week. “I (kept it) in my locker...
ARTEST BLAMES FANS, MEDIA FOR KEEPING FREE AGENTS AWAY FROM NEW YORK
9 days ago by
Unathletic
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Ron Artest is pretty much the realest guy in the NBA (and maybe in all of sports), so it’s always worth listening to what he’s got to say. Artest is never going to sugar-coat anything, and he told it like it is when asked about free agents signing with the Knicks.
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