This laker team has MAYBE one more run in them after this year unless they get younger. This team is getting exposed. They look old, slow and unathletic. So i thought to myself they aren't that old in terms of age. Their main core (minus fisher) is all 31 or younger. But it's not about age anymore, its about years in the league. Kobe and Fisher have been in the league for 14 years (to put that in perspective,Jordan played 15 yrs TOTAL, and two of those yrs he played less than 20 games). The rest of their core have all been in the league for AT LEAST 9 yrs (minus Bynum), and they've played A LOT of playoff games which only adds to it. Your body only gives you so many years. Look at all the high school guys that came out around the same time as Kobe. Garnett, Jermaine O'Neal, McGrady, etc. are all in their early 30's but their bodies aren't responding like they used to. I still think LA will win this series cause i'm not sure OK has the experience needed to win a MUST game in LA, but i could be dead wrong on that. It should be interesting.

When Scoop Jackson left Slam magazine and came to ESPN in 2006he wrote an intro article discussing his views on sports in a wide variety of topics. I'm sure if you search his name on ESPN you can probably come across the article. It was a list of topics that started with the words "I believe..." (ie., i believe so and so is the best player in the league). The one that stuck out to me the most and i fully believe is when he said "I believe there WILL be another Michael Jordan, but there will NEVER be another Larry Bird". There are no white americans now that can even consistantly be an All Star let alone an all time great (Nash is "North America", but i'm not counting him). And if you look at the college ranks over the last decade, some of the best white COLLEGE players don't translate in the League (Reddick, Morrison, Hansborough, etc), and i don't see that changing any time soon. I know this was a little off topic but it just reminded me of that article

i love pacman but hes as much to blame for the fight not happenin as prettyboy is and frankly the only reason someone doesnt want to have bloodtests is because they are doin somethin they shouldnt thats gonna show up on said tests results so go ahead pacman sue prettyboy and i hope to god the judge orders you to take a blood test to determine if youve be "wronged"

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He won't even beat Mosley so it won't matter. Lets be real here, take a look at the guy's resume. His signature victory is either hatton, corrales or judah. Not exactly Hagler vs Hearns or Ali vs Frazier. Those are the only "quality" and i use that term VERY LOOSELY, opponents he's ever beat that were in their prime. It's very easy to be great when you go up against sub par opponents. He's no different than a high school kid being Mr Basketball in the state of Meine or Mr Hockey in the state of Florida - WHO'S YOUR COMPETITION! And my opinion of him won't change til he fights and beats elite level fighters. If he can somehow beat Mosley that will be a step, but even that is pushing it, cause although he's the best fighter he's ever fought, Mosley is 38 and years removed from his prime. His legacy as an all time great will rest on his next 2 fights. IF, and i meant IF, he beats Mosley he HAS TO fight Pac. But we all know he won't. He'll complain about the color of pac's shorts or something creating a glare with the lights and blinding him. lol

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This was a close game but lakers still lost :( What really pissed me off was LeBJ rapping during the game and IMO that's very immature and I wished Ron Ron would have knocked him out because of that.

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this has been all over sports radio over here for the last few weeks, just not the EXACT details involving Crittenton. There were reports of Gilbert keeping guns in the locker room. It's actually good to see that this is the reason for the guns, because there was another rumor floating around the DC area that was kind of scary if you think of it. I'm not sure how many of you all heard this, but there were reports that Shaq was creeping with Gilbert Arenas' fiancee (that was apparently the final nail in the coffin with Shaq's marriage once his wife found out). And the first rumors of him having a gun in his locker surfaced right around the time Cleveland played the Wiz in DC back in late November. So of course you had a lot of callers on sports radio throwing their theories out there that it wasn't a "coincidence" that he happened to have guns in his locker when Cleveland and Shaq came to town. I never bought all that but it's still scary to think about it like that. Either way there's been a lot of smoke over Gilbert this year, on and off the court. If the Wiz could find ANYONE to take on his contract i think it's a safe bet they'd trade him in a heartbeat

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this has been all over sports radio over here for the last few weeks, just not the EXACT details involving Crittenton. There were reports of Gilbert keeping guns in the locker room. It's actually good to see that this is the reason for the guns, because there was another rumor floating around the DC area that was kind of scary if you think of it. I'm not sure how many of you all heard this, but there were reports that Shaq was creeping with Gilbert Arenas' fiancee (that was apparently the final nail in the coffin with Shaq's marriage once his wife found out). And the first rumors of him having a gun in his locker surfaced right around the time Cleveland played the Wiz in DC back in late November. So of course you had a lot of callers on sports radio throwing their theories out there that it wasn't a "coincidence" that he happened to have guns in his locker when Cleveland and Shaq came to town. I never bought all that but it's still scary to think about it like that. Either way there's been a lot of smoke over Gilbert this year, on and off the court. If the Wiz could find ANYONE to take on his contract i think it's a safe bet they'd trade him in a heartbeat

Brilliant move, when of course i see Mayweather being the pansy as i expected him to duck this eventually. X360PS3AMD05