Laker Fans Are YouTube Ninjas

by DexterFishmore on Jul 19, 2009 9:00 PM PDT in Editorial

In deciding whether to spend the next several years of his life as a Laker or as... something grossly inferior, Lamar Odom should consider the following: the Laker fanbase is headquartered in Los Angeles, molten center of the movie industry. This means there are oodles of Laker fans with professional video-editing skills and the free time to splice together gorgeously polished do-it-yourself highlight montages.

Like this one:

Come on, now... that's gotta be great for a player's ego, right? I heard the other day that the only YouTube application that's legal in Miami is for cocaine lords to post "stop snitchin" videos. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT, LAMAR.

I was already very much on edge about the contract standoff, and my blood pressure probably didn't need me watching tasty Odom Gems scored to minor-key piano music. But damn if that isn't some some studio-quality production work. Nicely played, mysterious YouTube stranger!

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I really loved the Trevor Ariza one, don’t know if it’s by the same guy. It probably is, I’m too lazy to check the channel name. So someone tell me if it is. I’m willing to bet they are made by the same person.

The steals look so good in black and white. Trevor really was all about the hustle, I’m going to miss him. Hopefully Odom will re-sign soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyQb9hK3oc8

by intuitive on Jul 19, 2009 9:40 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Where else but L.A. are you ever going to get videos like THAT made for simple role players.

by intuitive on Jul 19, 2009 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions

Dam it!

I am going to miss Ariza. Thnx for the link.

by PURPLE AND GOLD FOR LIFE on Jul 19, 2009 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions

same guy...

…this is the first time ive said this: I’m gonna miss TA :(

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

by Justin N. on Jul 19, 2009 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions

meh, needs more highlights.

I’m sorry, tribute videos can not be 2 minutes long … needs more highlights.

TA’s done so much this season, dropping them 3s, dunking, hustling, steals, heck I can name a couple of plays that were incredible this year from him:

Mavs game – he had this incredible block on Stackhouse and another key rebound + dunk where he flew out of nowhere

Celtics – come on, that xmas hustle rebound and pass to Sasha for the and one was too fun

Cavs – all those steals against LBJ. yay

2 steals against Nuggets, facial dunk on Dantay jones in game 2

raining 3s against the Magic in the last two games.

and I’m sure there’s a bunch more dunks and crazy steals/rebounds/blocks.

TA deserves a 10 minute highlight video tribute

that being said, the video’s nice,but could be longer :P

Lakers 2009 Road to Redemption: TREVOR, DEREK, LAMAR, PAU & KOBE.
Play the game of which Lakers reminds you of: TA - TI, Shannon Brown - Chris Brown, Pau Gasol - Jesus, Machine - Luis Scola/Russell Brand, PJ with mustache and beard - Colonel Sanders.

by PeanutButterSpread on Jul 20, 2009 12:15 AM PDT up reply actions

We're going to have a mega video post coming soon.

With many highlight videos, interviews, the parade, etc.

by wondahbap on Jul 20, 2009 8:27 AM PDT up reply actions

thats a good video.

by chaucer on Jul 20, 2009 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions

argh!

someone at work told me today that Miami had signed Odom. At first I didn’t believe him, thinking he had heard some of the old news about Miami’s interest in him on ESPN, but then I thought about how I hadn’t checked online for a couple hours before I went to work, and that totally screwed up the rest of my night.

Thankfully, when I logged on tonight, I saw this instead. C’mon Lamar! We can’t do it without you! Is $9 million for 3 years really that big of a deal? We all know that if your contract ends then, you’ll still get a MLE deal from someone at that point. Honestly, if I can live off of $7.25 an hour, wasting my talents at my dead end job, surely you can accept $30 million, can’t you?

"The problem actually is that PER is a extra-long, double high wagon load of horse crap." - timbo (7/3/09)

by tandur on Jul 19, 2009 11:18 PM PDT reply actions

knock it off, u don’t make 7 bucks an hour.

by chaucer on Jul 19, 2009 11:31 PM PDT up reply actions

=(

he’s going to miami. thank you for the good memories, lamar. thanks for helping bring back the title to LA. i respect your decision, but am saddened that you had to leave. you will leave a huge void. adios.

by chaucer on Jul 19, 2009 11:34 PM PDT reply actions

Who’s reporting this?

by DexterFishmore on Jul 19, 2009 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions

No one is.

by intuitive on Jul 20, 2009 12:16 AM PDT up reply actions

why….why would someone do that….

Bills make me wanna SHOUT!

by silverstreak3k on Jul 20, 2009 12:20 AM PDT up reply actions

Trevor Ariza needs a tribute vid

ASAP.

by PeanutButterSpread on Jul 20, 2009 12:07 AM PDT reply actions

No. He doesn't.

He’s a Rocket now. Even if he still wishes he were a Laker (he still has a Lakers pic, and Lakers SF in his bio, on his Twitter page.)

by wondahbap on Jul 20, 2009 8:29 AM PDT up reply actions

Also ... a 1 minute LO tribute video is too short

not to be ungrateful or anything … but there’s a bunch of awesome plays from LO as a Laker.

by PeanutButterSpread on Jul 20, 2009 12:16 AM PDT reply actions

Still, that's one hell of an amazing LO video

love the music.

by PeanutButterSpread on Jul 20, 2009 12:19 AM PDT up reply actions

Clips making moves.

I like what they’ve done this summer. Got Blake, got rid of Randolph, should be healthy. Now this:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4342057

Will the god off season moves translate to the court?

by wondahbap on Jul 20, 2009 1:03 PM PDT reply actions

If they can all actually stay healthy…. which seems to never happen for the Clippers

by intuitive on Jul 20, 2009 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions

I guess Ariza isn’t going to work out in Vegas for Team USA anymore

Portland’s Brandon Roy(notes) and LaMarcus Aldridge(notes), plus Houston’s Trevor Ariza(notes) and Boston’s Glen Davis(notes) will not be in Las Vegas. New York forward David Lee(notes) and Indiana’s Danny Granger(notes) will attend minicamp but won’t participate.

by intuitive on Jul 20, 2009 1:19 PM PDT reply actions

I will miss Trevor stealing the ball and going down the other way dunk or layup

Paul D. Kelley

by so.cal.native1952 on Jul 20, 2009 4:12 PM PDT reply actions

to lamar odom...the soon to be miami heat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwSIdKYZ2t0

by chaucer on Jul 20, 2009 6:04 PM PDT reply actions

Buss is on vacation in Hawaii right now..

by intuitive on Jul 20, 2009 6:07 PM PDT reply actions

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/07/bleacher-report-losing-lamar-wont-hurt-the-lakers.html

by chaucer on Jul 20, 2009 6:11 PM PDT up reply actions

If Lamar doesn’t re-sign, winning back to back titles becomes MUCH more difficult.

by intuitive on Jul 20, 2009 6:14 PM PDT up reply actions

yes. but we still have a good enough team. i don’t know how we’d do against the celtics without lamar. we would need to get another big man to help gasol out. byum’s game will need to grow by leaps and bounds as well.

by chaucer on Jul 20, 2009 6:29 PM PDT up reply actions

It's ALL about Bynum if LO doesn't come back

There isn’t another option out there that can possibly start to fill the hole a focused Odom leaves in this team. A Bynum that is earning his (12.5 mil) paycheck can bring the activity, the rebounding, and possibly, the scoring as well. Hopefully this is a situation we won’t need to think about much longer. Seems like all offers are on the table now. No point in dragging this out.

by Tydides on Jul 21, 2009 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions

If Lamar doesn’t end up re-signing you know who to blame..

Luke Walton

http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/luke-walton-trust-me-odom-will-be-a-laker-25173

Luke Walton was asked over 300 times today @AVP what up with Lamar, his response was always "LO will be a Laker trust me"

by intuitive on Jul 20, 2009 6:12 PM PDT reply actions

damn, that youtube vid of ariza just made me miss him more especially now that odom is leaving ( in my opinion). i loved the way he took it to the basket, dunking most of the time in electrifying fashion.

by chaucer on Jul 20, 2009 6:23 PM PDT up reply actions

if Odom was leaving...

it’d be done already. Miami’s offer isn’t going to get better, outside of trading JO to OKC or Portland. The fact that nothing has still been resolved means Odom is still trying to work things out with LA.

"The problem actually is that PER is a extra-long, double high wagon load of horse crap." - timbo (7/3/09)

by tandur on Jul 20, 2009 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions

when the lakers struggled in the playoffs and when nothing seemed to work. i kept saying during the game, they deserve to lose. in other words, i kind of rooted against them, for it seemed to help them win…lol…hopefully if i say lamar is leaving the exact opposite will happen. however, i think buss is serious about not caring whether he comes back or not. he doesn’t fool around. i’m glad too. i don’t like it when owners cave in to athletes. this goes for kobe as well. the franchise is always more valuable than any one player.

by chaucer on Jul 20, 2009 6:27 PM PDT reply actions

!

by chaucer on Jul 20, 2009 6:41 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

I’m going to miss this closing line up.

by l3oh on Jul 20, 2009 7:04 PM PDT up reply actions

they look like astronauts on a mission. they have a look like they are going to get the job done.

by chaucer on Jul 20, 2009 8:22 PM PDT up reply actions

Substitute Artest for Ariza

and that line up looks pretty tough also. I can promise all of you that when the Lakers are raising their back to back trophy no one will miss Ariza one bit. We ALL loved him for what he did on the court but he is gone. Nothing that anyone could of done. Ariza could of sure stepped in at some point and told his agent to shut the hell up and he never did which by the way isn’t that what LO just did by contacting Buss personally? I still say that the line up with Artest is amazing!

by PURPLE AND GOLD FOR LIFE on Jul 20, 2009 7:09 PM PDT up reply actions

+1

that was one heck of a closing lineup.
my fave five guys.

i got the playoff t-shirt that had all five of their names on it.

by PeanutButterSpread on Jul 20, 2009 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Orlando is having a quietly good off season. Rumor has it, Matt Barnes is going to sign with Orlando to a two year deal.. Picking up Vince Carter, Ryan Anderson, Matt Barnes, C.J. Watson, Brandon Bass, and retaining Gortat… Wow

by intuitive on Jul 21, 2009 12:40 AM PDT reply actions

Forgot the link:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4342767

by intuitive on Jul 21, 2009 12:43 AM PDT up reply actions

i agree

if their team plays as good as it looks on paper, i dont see orlando or boston beating them in the playoffs. of course injuries can change all that.

Bills make me wanna SHOUT!

by silverstreak3k on Jul 21, 2009 1:50 AM PDT up reply actions

* cleveland

Bills make me wanna SHOUT!

by silverstreak3k on Jul 21, 2009 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions

Where is Orlando getting all of this money?

by wondahbap on Jul 21, 2009 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions

I think they used only a partial amount of their MLE to sign Bass, I’m assuming they used the rest on Barnes.

by intuitive on Jul 21, 2009 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions

from walt disney…under the table, of course.

by chaucer on Jul 21, 2009 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions

If this is true, wow that’s a lot.

http://twitter.com/lakersnation/status/2759387496

AM830 Roger Lodge says his sources say Lamar met with Dr. Buss in a room and will stay with the Lakers for 4 years/$40M – @KTLAMorningShow

by intuitive on Jul 21, 2009 1:42 PM PDT reply actions

is this true?

by chaucer on Jul 21, 2009 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Hmm

That’s kind of ambiguous. It could be they’ve agreed on a deal for the 4/40 or that Odom has told Buss what terms he will stay for. Given all the drama of the past week, the latter seems unlikely, but that could just be me wanting a deal be finalized here.

by Tydides on Jul 21, 2009 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions

that report looks good so i hope this does become official

There are basic Fundamentals that are needed to move forward in this game. Always keep your guard up at all times to avoid being caught in a trap. Overcome the fouls that will be commited against you REBOUND AND PRESS ON. ADJUST to the LimeLight: ALL-STAR PLAYERS ARE ALWAYS THE CENTER OF ATTENTION. Know what your role is and play your position. Find a game plan and execute it. REMEMBER YOU ONLY GET OUT OF THE GAME WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT.

by BrittneyM on Jul 21, 2009 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions

Maybe they chilled with a couple of Playmates, rolled up a fatty, ate some candy, then got the deal done.

by wondahbap on Jul 21, 2009 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions

Might be the only way to get Odom to stay

That method seems like the best way to get to odoms heart, some blunts,babes,and some sugar babies and im sure we could throw in some fruit roll ups and it would be a done deal the only hold up is if he gets candy for 4 or 5 years…he really wants the 5th year

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by Czheck on Jul 21, 2009 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions