Wait, what just happened? Lakers pass on Goudelock and Morris contract offers
As I’m not a believer in the Jimmy Buss theory that most bar patrons can operate as effective assessors of pro basketball talent, I’ll operate under the assumption that the Lakers have good reasons for...
View ArticleFrom Sessions to Nash to D’Antoni: 5 bad deals that doomed the Lakers
With the 2013 Dwight Howard Genuflection Tour in high swing, the Lakers are undoubtedly messaging the free-agent center that they are the preeminent builder of championship teams. However, going back...
View ArticleDwight Howard and his floundering Q Score: Does anybody really want to see...
While Dwight Howard’s declining statistics over the last two seasons seem to belie the aggressive recruitment he’s currently receiving, there are other ironies at play. Why, for example, are Howard’s...
View ArticleLakers news: Earl Clark takes his talents the Rust Belt
Earl Clark, the throw-in to the Lakers’ three-way deal with Orlando last year to acquire Dwight Howard who ended up becoming a solid contributor, will leave Los Angeles to sign a two-year, $9 million...
View ArticleHappy ending for the Lakers? Golden State sign-and-trade deal appears very...
While Title Town News continues to consider Bill Simmons to be a rogue basketball state, we remain in lock-step agreement with him that a sign-and-trade with Golden State is the best way to resolve the...
View ArticleDid the Lakers really mean to push Howard away? And now what?
Did the Lakers pull a Pee Wee Herman in regard to Dwight Howard? I am, of course, referring to that famous scene in Tim Burton’s groundbreaking 1985 comedy classic, in which title character Pee-Wee...
View ArticleLakers talk to Odom, Vujacic, Farmar: Can they put the old gang back together?
Could it have been that long ago that the Lakers were that young, dynamic group of ball movers with superior length, a dominant future and great hair? Flash back just five years to the spring of 2008 —...
View Article‘Tankapolooza’ for the Lakers? Why Time Warner Cable and AEG won’t let that...
One of the popularly suggested roads forward for the Lakers is what ESPN’s Bill Simmons calls “Tankapolooza.” As he describes it, it’s having the team purposely “suck all kinds of suck” for next season...
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