2014-15 Official Lakers Season Thread, Vol: We Love Each Other

[had pants]

 

[darthska]

Farmar, Vucacic, Walton, & Turiaf rollin over in their grave.

 

[had pants]

 

[krazyrodzilla]

Where this coming from? People been saying this lately. Jennings, KD, Paul George?

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[xbiker47]

 

[pmatic]

Why is is taking so long to put together Byron's staff? You would think they would be preparing for training camp right now

@ESPNSteinLine Hearing new Lakers coach Byron Scott is closing on the addition of Igor Kokoskov, one of Europe's finest coaching exports, to his LA staff

@ESPNSteinLine Kokoskov, of Serbia, was on Mike Brown's staff in Cleveland last season and just led Georgia to qualification for next summer's EuroBasket

Mike Brown's staff huh?

 

[senorroboto2k5]

So far, a guy from Mike Brown's staff from last season and a guy from Keith Smart's staff in Sacramento.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

yea we would be much better with rambis and shaw from PJ's staff. why not take a look at mike brown? he coached under popovich, after all. kind of irrational

 

[trueprada]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...um=referral&utm_campaign=programming-national

 

[had pants]

 

[pmatic]

The Lakers won Zach Lowe's best court design:

1. Los Angeles Lakers

I’m surprised, and not just because I’ve basically terminated my own position in placing the Lakers atop the list. We don’t have the same reverence for the Lakers’ court as for Boston’s, and that’s in part because the Lakers have changed their court several times dating back to the early 1980s.

It was all gold back then, only the gold was really yellow, and the yellow was as bright as the sun. There is a lot of nostalgia for that court, with its blank all-yellow baselines and red markings, but it always struck me as too yellow.

The Lakers kept playing around with the design, especially during the Shaq-Kobe era. They darkened the yellow and moved to “Forum blue” for the boundaries. The landmark change came for the 1999-2000 season, when the Lakers flipped the colors, using blue for the paint, yellow for the sidelines and a weird, crammed white lettering for “Lakers” on the baseline. They played with the shade of blue, but that was the basic structure for several seasons:

They didn’t get it right until two seasons ago, when they debuted the exact look they have today. The blue is beautiful, soft and deep, and the Lakers have let it stand alone by removing almost all the lane markings. The streaking “Lakers” font behind each basket, a very slight variation on the font in the central logo, is miles better than the blocky white characters they had tried to squeeze down there.

The centerpiece has always been perfect — the tasteful L.A. logo, with a star for each of the franchise’s 16 championships. The alternate “L” logo in two corners is a recent addition, and it adds some spice. That “L” is slanted, with yellow racing stripes slashing across its midsection, elements that create the illusion of speed and mirror the main team logo.

The Lakers use the theater lighting system, and the spotlighting, bright Forum gold and general L.A. atmosphere combine to lend Lakers games the unmatched feel of a monumental event.

The red Staples Center insignia is a minor annoyance and blends more easily with the Clippers’ color scheme than it does for L.A.’s traditional powerhouse. But that’s a corporate inconvenience that mars every arena.

You could make arguments for at least a half-dozen court designs, but on this list, the Lakers rule.

http://grantland.com/features/nba-court-design-power-rankings/

 

[darthska]

LA Lakers!

Your 2014-2015

NBA 'Best Court'

Champs

 

[trueprada]

 

[MVP]

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[senorroboto2k5]

Honestly I miss the white blocky letters on the baseline. Reminds me of the Kobe, Shaq, NBA Courtside wtih Kobe Bryant on N64 days.

 

[mj 23]

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[grandtheftbike]

the real NBA Summer League champs

 

[mrdieselfuel09]

Someone embed

Thanks.


Goodnight

 

[essential1]

The Future on NBA 2K15

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[kal-el-8]

 
LA Lakers!

Your 2014-2015

NBA 'Best Court'

Champs

 

[darthska]

^ Thiiiisssss dude. 

His swag, though. 

 

 

[grandtheftbike]

The Future on NBA 2K15

 

[lovehateself]

 
^ Thiiiisssss dude. 

His swag, though. 

 

nothing on my man who had that button up guayaberra made up actual gold

 

[jm1ke]

Haha.

 

[essential1]

From Marc Stein

Going the latter route would be an undeniable risk for Bledsoe, coming off a second knee surgery that limited him to 43 games last season, but make no mistake: Phoenix would be facing tremendous risk here as well. Should Bledsoe decide to sign the qualifying offer, as appears increasingly likely if no sign-and-trade materializes, Bledsoe can't be traded without his consent for the whole season ... and would instantly set himself up to join Dragic as an unrestricted free agent next summer.

Consider that last sentence again.

If Bledsoe elects to go the rare qualifying offer route, Phoenix would suddenly face the very real possibility of losing both of its two best assets without compensation in 2015 free agency.

The Lakers, for example, are just one team league sources say would likely make a hard run at both of them, based on the premise that the Suns couldn't afford the cost of paying both at that point, theoretically making either Bledsoe or Dragic gettable. Sources say that Houston, furthermore, has Dragic on its list of potential targets next summer given how he's blossomed since leaving the Rockets for Phoenix in the free-agent summer of 2012.

Would be the ultimate F U to the Suns for the Nash trade. Just take their entire young core from them