2009 nba playoffs Stories - SB Nation
Tribute to Lamar Odom, NBA Champion
I've often wondered if I would ever get a chance to write this. It's not that I didn't expect the Lakers to win a championship; it's just that I wasn't sure how much Lamar Odom would have to do with i...
The 2008-2009 L.A. Lakers: Entitled for a reason
When measured by the annals of time, the 2008-2009 Lakers campaign will surely be remembered by the final result and not the journey. This is true of most seasons, and especially true of a...
Tribute to Pau Gasol, NBA Champion
We all have those, "I remember where I was when..." moments in our lives. For some reason, many of them are negative. My parents remember where they were when JFK was assassinated. We all remember whe...
Like the 2009 Lakers, Great Teams Win in the Face of Adversity
I'm not a conspiracy theorist. With regards to basketball, I have never subscribed to the idea that this or that external force is to blame for one team losing or another winning. I believe that in an...
Lakers Overcome Previous Struggles, Dominate Finals
Remember that Lakers team that struggled to put away an injury-riddled Houston Rockets? Remember how unlike a championship team they seemed, and what a frustration they were to their fans? Yeah, me ne...
Lakers-Magic: A Statistical Series Retrospective
The Lakers' series victory over the Orlando Magic was most striking in its thoroughness. Which is to say - from a stathead point of view, whatever the superiority that the Lakers demonstrated over 455...
Pay the Critics No Mind: Kobe Bryant Has Been "Amazing"
We're in the middle of the 2009 NBA Finals, and Kobe Bryant is at center stage. He is a mere 48 minutes away from erasing his critics' single biggest talking point – the fact that he has yet to ...
Lakers-Magic Game 4: Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown
In Game Four, Derek Fisher had a Robert Horry kind of night. This is a more complicated notion than you might think and, as hoops compliments go, is both enormous and enormously qualified. I...
Magic 108, Lakers 104: Game 3 Recap
This one is on Kobe. It's hard to blame him too much when he was the primary reason the Lakers were in the game at halftime. The Magic shot 75% from the field in the first half, including 44% from thr...
Lakers-Magic Game 3: Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown
Reversion to the mean is a powerful force. In principle, it holds that over time, the outcomes of uncertain events will reflect their underlying probabilities. Take the most basic example of such an e...
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