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The Winner Is…

Published by Jim Murdoc on July 10, 2007 in Nugg's Take. 40 Comments

good times…I live in a town, Los Angeles, a town that other people from other towns frown upon.

We are known for our fake breasts, our fake calves, our celebrity scandals, our traffic, our always sunny weather, and most importantly our Caramel Macchiato. You see, even with all these false, well some, misconception of Los Angeles, this is still MY town.

But, behind all this so-called glitz and glamour, hides a Los Angeles organization that is used to being frowned upon from other towns in other states. Yes, am talking about the Lakers, an organization that doesn’t know what they want and doesn’t know what to do. A first time in 28 years…

Am not used to what am hearing, am not used with all these demands that I hear from Kobe and from our Laker fans, and am not used to all these e-mails we get in our inbox from desperate fans that want immediate changes by any means necessary. “Get rid of Bynum!” “Trade Kobe!” “Keep Kobe!” “Get Garnett!” etc, etc…

You know what I want? I want championships, damn it! I don’t care how we get them and who we trade from our team to get them, only if the conclusion brings another Larry O’Brien trophy to our town of greedy bastards. I loved the feeling I had for three straight seasons and I want that feeling again. I miss that feeling. Am I greedy for wanting a feeling that other fans from other teams have never experienced? Hell yeah, I am. And I don’t care.

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Mitch Kupchak on AM 570

Published by Jim Murdoc on June 24, 2007 in Nugg's Take. 23 Comments

“There will be a lot of good days ahead.” is what he told the Laker fans. Is this some sort of crypto language that his leaving the Lakers front office. Good days are indeed ahead if that is what he really meant.

When asked about the Lakers woes this year. He gave the top one answer from every General Manager in the NBA: The (enter NBA Team here) were really good before injuries. Screw the fact that nothing was done before the trade dateline. Also, mentioned that Bynum is working out and has a lot of potential. Wow, Mitch. Tell us something we haven’t been told a thousand times, won’t cha? Same excuses every year with this guy. It appears that Bynum isn’t going anywhere.

“I’m very fortunate to have this job.” That is the most honest thing you’ve ever said — one thousand flaky gold stars for you, Mitchy.

Good days are ahead? I sure hope so.

Listen to the full interview here, brought to you by AM 570:

Ric Bucher: “ZERO chance of KG to LA.” Do we believe him?

Published by Jim Murdoc on June 22, 2007 in Nugg's Take. 28 Comments

tool?Ric Bucher was just on Sportscenter this afternoon and pretty much summed it up that theirs a ZERO chance that Kevin Garnett will join the Lakers this upcoming season. He also mentioned that the Timberwolves see not current players in the Lakers squad that they can rebuild around. Also, stated that the Wolves are not interested with the pieces that the Lakers are offering. Does that mean that the Lakers put an offer to the Wolves but they just weren’t interested what they had to offer?

Does Ricky-boy have an agenda against the Lakers? Since his been throwing out the fact that Kobe will not return to the Lakers next year. Is he credible? Or just a complete tool of BSPN?

Sound off in the comments. Let us know how ya feel!

A Brief History of GetGarnett.com

Published by Jim Murdoc on May 14, 2007 in Nugg's Take. 11 Comments

What a crazy few days this has been for the creators of GetGarnett.com.

We never expected to have this much exposure in this short amount of time. Hell, we weren’t even expecting any sort of exposure at all. We were just looking to create a site by fans for the fans. A blog that can keep the Laker fans updated on a daily bases, with articles and original content.

It all started, late Thursday night when LD2K, hZm, and I were in line to watch the midnight screening of Spiderman 3 (meh.), when they told me the idea of the website. I was immediately into it. We started throwing ideas around (some of these ideas still haven’t been put to effect, btw) on what sort of content we should have. We knew this could be something special that people would really get into.

Less then 48 hours later, I had built the website and hZm had created the images. Soon after, LD2k threw up his article and the next day he had the intro video for the website ready. We then started to post the GetGarnett.com link to all Laker forums and websites, spreading the “Get Garnett” movement, I would say.

By Monday, we were already been mentioned by two blogs.

By Tuesday, we already had over 100,000 thousand hits to the website.

However, it was on Wednesday, when the Loose Cannons had a caller (Thanks, Jamie!) who mentioned the website. . . twice! We didn’t know who the guy war nor did we tell him what to say. He believed in the Get Garnett movement enough that he wanted to give us a big plug.

LD2k immediately called my cell, screaming that somebody mentioned OUR little website on the radio. “Dude!” was the only words that I could mutter to him. This couldn’t get ANY better, we thought to ourselves.

Alright, I didn’t want to finish writing this if most of you aren’t interesting how GetGarnett.com stared, so if you guys leave me some positive feedback and are curious to know more. . . I’ll finish the article. If not, I’ll just bury this in the “lame” category. ;-)

Peace.