Los Angeles Lakers News, Rumors and Information
Very excellent news to hear! Now do your job, Mitch. And sign him!
O.C. Register: Andrew Bynum did indeed receive medical clearance from doctors Thursday and will begin training in earnest by mid-July. His agent, David Lee, said the Lakers center did not have any pain or swelling in his surgically repaired left knee and will be ready to go by training camp in October.
Pretty cool news. Glad to see Fisher bringing his personality outside of the Lakers and into the broadcasting booth. Very cool, make sure to check out the tv broadcasts and also check out the very exciting Sparks!
Our Sports Central: Three-time NBA champion and Los Angeles Lakers’ guard Derek Fisher is using the off-season to be a guest color analyst on five Los Angeles Sparks telecasts on the Fox Sports Network, it was announced.
Fisher joins veteran play-by-play announcer Larry Burnett, who is in his 11th season as voice of the Sparks. Fisher began his guest commentator role July 1. Other telecasts Fisher will work are July 6 vs. Phoenix, July 14 vs. San Antonio, Aug. 28 vs. Sacramento and Sept. 1 vs. Minnesota, which is on FSN West. The other telecasts are on FSN Prime Ticket. Fisher also serves as president of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA).
“I’m excited to be working with the Sparks,” said Fisher, a 12-year NBA veteran. “The front office has done a great job in assembling a crowd-pleasing and entertaining team to watch.
“Talking about basketball comes very easy to me. It’s something I’ve been doing my whole life, so it’s great that I get the chance to share my knowledge and experiences with basketball fans.
“I’d like to give the fans at home something interesting to listen to. I can tell them what a coach might be saying to his or her players during an important time out. Or what kind of play a team should run during a key possession.”
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This is interesting. What is your take? I would def. like Maggette to get on board. Imagine all the free throws we’d get. Plus, he’s a physical player.
O.C. Register: Maggette and the Lakers’ franchise player, Kobe Bryant, share the same agent, one Rob Pelinka. So perhaps it would behoove the Lakers to at least give Pelinka a call to see if anything is possible.
The Lakers are well over the salary cap anyway and are in the luxury-tax paying stratosphere, so what harm does it do to ask Maggette and Pelinka if the mid-level exception would suffice? Heck, Corey could still keep his jersey No. 50.
Our league MVP and Lakers all-star is nominated for 2 ESPYs. Make sure to get in there and vote and support #24…
Lakers Blog: This year’s 16th annual ESPYs awards features 37 categories, but there are two that Lakers’ fans should focus on –- Best Male Athlete & Best NBA Player.
Kobe Bryant is nominated in both.
For the first time you can decide who takes home the ESPY. Voting has begun on ESPN’s ESPY website and will continue through July 12th.
The ESPY awards will be hosted by Justin Timberlake and will air on Sunday July 20th at 6pm Pacific on ESPN.
This is awesome. Sounds like Kobe is set to lead our entire country and bring back the Gold this summer. He’s earning a lot of respect through his peers as well…
Yahoo! Sports: Meanwhile, a few steps down the hall in an adjacent ballroom, another Yankees fan sat in front of his own set of cameras. Kobe Bryant’s questioners numbered about half as those surrounding James and none of them asked him about New York’s transit system or the name of his favorite rapper. (A guess: Not Shaq.)
James was King of New York on this day, and likely will stay such for some time. Bryant didn’t seem to mind being upstaged, nor should he. His fiefdom remains intact. Make no mistake: As brilliantly as LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Paul have played, as much as this young generation of NBA stars has emboldened USA Basketball, this Redeem Team, these Olympics, belong to Kobe.
Jerry Colangelo, USA Basketball’s managing director, and his coach, Mike Krzyzewski, can talk all they want about three-year commitments and chemistry. If he’s lucky, Coach K might even be able to mine another Amex commercial from this gig. But they also know better. This Olympic team has a better chance to bring home the gold medal because it has Kobe Bryant. The failed squads from the 2002 World Championships, ’04 Olympics and ’06 Championships didn’t.
Bryant won’t carry a captain’s title for Team USA because Krzyzewski has no plans to name captains. Bryant and James, he said, are natural leaders. Their teammates already know who to follow.
There is a RUMOR going around at a few places that Sasha is being offered 30 million by Houston. There is no valid link and just looking at the rumored numbers, I HIGHLY doubt it’s true. We’ll keep our eye on it though…
RUMOR: “The Houston Rockets are set to offer restricted free agent guard Sasha Vujacic a five-year contract that could be worth around US$30-million, according to an insider report Monday. The Lakers will have 1 week to match the offer once Vujacic signs the offer sheet.”
Our fan favorite has been rumored to lure the interest from the Utah Jazz. Well as of this morning, the Jazz have begun talks with Ronny and his agent…
SLTribune: The Jazz contacted agent Mark Bartelstein about L.A. Lakers forward Ronny Turiaf.
Bartelstein added that he was planning to talk with O’Connor later Tuesday.
This is interesting. Looks like the Lakers will stand pat for now. Perhaps resign Sasha/Turiaf and call it an off-season? For now…
RGJ.com: Marcelus Kemp is close to a deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, his agent said Tuesday.
Kemp, a former Nevada shooting guard, was not selected in the NBA draft last week.
“We haven’t closed on a deal,” agent John Grieg said. “We are essentially headed that route with the Lakers, but I really can’t discuss it at the moment.”
Grieg said a deal should be finalized in the next 10 days to two weeks.
“The Lakers have liked him and have been watching him for a while,” Grieg said. “They’re feeling fortunate to get him where they have, in a sense. He’ll leave on Sunday to head to L.A. to begin his journey.
“He fits in with their kind of style. The triangle (offense) is a multipurpose guard format. I think he can fit in well with that.”
Grieg said Kemp, who is from Seattle and did not immediately return a call seeking comment, made a strong impression on NBA teams.
“I think Marcelus has done an excellent job representing himself on a professional basis,” he said. “That carries a lot of weight with teams. His maturity and poise as a sixth-year senior, that carries a lot of weight with them. He should be proud of that.”
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