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The good news about Vladimir Radmanovic's 2008? It was better than 2007. Granted, without landing in the slammer, getting injured in a freak bull-riding mishap, or just retiring at 27, last year was almost impossible not to improve upon. But still, Vlad was better, and not just compared against a season lost to a snowboarding accident and playoff inactivity. He established a career-high FG% (45%) and was within a personal top-three for 3-PT%, FT% and assists. But those marks hardly establish this year as a great one for Vlad. Not really even a good one. Much remained missing during Vlad's...

Sorry, but I have somewhere I have to be at that time and BK is out of the country on vacation. Thus, we gotta cancel this week. But tune in seven days hence, when we probably have definitive developments to discuss with Ronny Turiaf, Sasha Vujacic and anything else related to free agency. Thanks, AK

This move may not make the Clippers instant contenders (although a core of Davis, a now presumed to be re-signed Elton Brand, Chris Kaman and Al Thornton is pretty talented), but should David Stern decide to award the Larry O'Brien to the team that produces the best film, the red, white and blue now have a serious leg up on the rest of the league. AK

The Register covers the Los Angeles Lakers behind the scenes.

The 7-footer is expected to be ready when the Lakers open training camp in October.

Is it Baron Davis, Andrew Bynum or someone else?

The Los Angeles Lakers recently partnered with NBA Cares and Toyota to create the team’s 11th Reading and Learning Center. The new Center was unveiled during the 2008 NBA Finals on Wednesday, June 11th, at the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Monica and will p

The Los Angeles Lakers have extended qualifying offers to restricted free agents Sasha Vujacic and Ronny Turiaf

The Lakers selected 6’5” guard Joe Crawford with the 58th pick in the 2008 NBA Draft, it was announced today.

Lots of news out there, like we’ll be seeing plenty of Beno for the next five years. So, thought it was time for a new thread and some new thoughts. • If you didn’t see this yet (Ryan had it in the comments), apparently Baron Davis has a verbal deal with the Clippers (remember, nothing on [...]

The term free agent applies to the players and their status, but for the Lakers any signings will be anything but free. Which is why we can expect limited if any action from the Lakers on the open market that starts tonight. Let’s start with this — the Lakers payroll right now is about $75 million [...]

Lots of things to talk about, but as this is a Lakers blog and all, maybe we should start there. As word filtered through the Kentucky faithful that Crawford had been drafted, more information on the newest Laker came out. That starts with long-time reader here Zach who is a UK fan, lives in Louisville and [...]

sign Maggettee 5 year mid level exception trade Lamar Odom for hinrich sign vujacic turiaf  and Q ross for  cheap price

The Lakers continue to wait for Sasha Vujacic and Ronny Turiaf, but they have fall-back plans in case their restricted free agents don’t re-sign with them. The Lakers have talked with representatives of Boston small forward James Posey and veteran San Antonio sharpshooter Brent Barry to gauge the free agents’ interest. Posey, a key reserve for the [...]

You're dealing with national pride. You never want to see the United States lose at anything. Water polo, soccer, whatever it is. You don't want the United States to lose ever. And in this case, even more so, because it's basketball and it's what I do.

We are two days away from the draft and I wanted to give an early forecast of what to expect in the lottery. The draft is not an exact science, so everything is opinion based, but follow my logic on some of these picks. 1. Chicago Bulls Derrick Rose PG Memphis Not even John Paxson can [...]

Late Sunday night (instead of ordering Big Mac’s at a local McDonald’s), Shaquille O’neal was busy dissing his former teammate Kobe Bryant. “You know how I be, last week Kobe couldn’t do without me.” Shaq continued his rap stating expletives and pretty much slamming Kobe for Shaq’s divorce. I don’t know what this whole divorce situation is [...]

As the Lakers plan for the off season, Mitch Kupchak has already come out and said that he wants everyone back by virtue of this comment, “If we did nothing,” Kupchak said, “and brought back the players that are our existing free agents, just by virtue of this team aging one more year and getting [...]