The Lakers will be reminded on Friday, quite rudely perhaps, of their latest free-agent failure. “We constantly think about them throughout the course of the year and are always looking at what they are doing and how they are playing. It wasn’t basketball and that’s probably where we made our mistake”, Scott said.
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F LaMarcus Aldridge scored 24 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in just 27 minutes as the Spurs defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 109-87 Friday night, improving to 12-0 at home this season.
Few would describe the Lakers’ free agent pitch to Aldridge that way.
The meeting included executives from AEG and Time Warner Cable but was especially lacking in the basketball department, such as analytics, an area where the Lakers have been lacking.
Even in his old age, Bryant’s presence and resume alone has still managed to dominate in such a way that head coach Byron Scott blatantly bends his personal rules to accommodate the Black Mamba, and fans still hold out hope that every night he performs he will erupt and show a glimpse of the player that used to be. But it didn’t matter.
The Lakers shot 39 percent from the floor as a team.
“We’ll see what the fans and the coaches decide, and then we’ll go from there”, Silver said, per Pincus. “I think it’s overblown, like we’re going to have some sort of a sales deal”.
The sequel to Jordan Clarkson’s homecoming did not have the same compelling script as the original. Scott does not expect Clarkson to play Saturday in Houston….
Bryant has captured four All-Star Game MVPs (2002, 2007, 2009 and 2011) over the course of his career and ranks first all-time with 280 points in All-Star competition, according to Basketball-Reference.com. “I’m starting to feel like myself”.
Clarkson said it was “definitely disappointing” not to play in his hometown after starring at Wagner High School (2007-10).
But I fear that Bryant will push himself too hard in the All-Star Game, and possibly derail the rest of his final season with a significant injury.
In a match between two of the most popular teams in the league, the San Antonio Spurs host the struggling Los Angeles Lakers at the AT&T Center in the regular season of the National Basketball Association.
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When you stand in line to order at Chris Madrid’s, a San Antonio institution famous for its burgers, your eyes gravitate toward the numerous T-shirts on display. Coming out of their showing against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday that saw D’Angelo Russell and Julius Randle featured down the stretch with Kobe Bryant on the bench, Lakers fans got a sign of things to come and it was a ton of fun to watch.
