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Photo: SLAM Last time we discussed a potential return to the NBA's hardwood for Allen Iverson, anything seemed possible. The humbled former superstar stated as recently as November that he [...]

Kobe Bryant's rocky relationship with the City of Brotherly Love took another interesting turn last night. In front of a packed Wells Fargo Center, the Laker brought his career scoring [...]

Photo: S.I. Vault If pictures are truly worth a thousand words, the one cemented above could be worth well over a million. Outside of the birth of HBO and Atari [...]

The #KobeSystem is where the successful find more success. You don't have to listen to us, though. Take their word for it. This commercial is comedy! The funniest part about the entire thing is that they have Tony Williams, motivational speaker, as one of the speakers. I just want to know how did they get him to do a commercial about this. Check it out below.

With a torn ligament in his wrist and a Laker team that doesn't seem quite perfect, Kobe says that he is good enough to play on the Lakers season opener. Even though I am not a Laker fan, I don't feel this is the best idea for Kobe if this injury is serious. At the end of the day, it's one game that you can sit out and miss. The best idea is to let your wrist heal properly and come back playing at 100%. Yes, he's Kobe Bryant, yes fans want to see him play, yes, he's played through [...]

As if the Lakers needed another distraction, Kobe Bryant and wife Vanessa apparently are headed separate ways after news of their divorce filing hit the news yesterday. The former Mrs. [...]

ESPN's Chris Broussard and his band of merry, anonymous sources set the wheels in motion by saying the Lakers are unofficially officially in the running to grab not just Dwight [...]

Sometimes in the African American culture, issues not directly involving our race have a tendency to often times fall on deaf ears. The reason stems from a long list of [...]

Low key, the Shaq/Kobe era was one of the greatest and most debate-inducing in basketball history. Their rivalry, however authentic, managed to achieve something many wondered if the NBA could [...]

Here's a great, and I mean great, time waster today if you happen to be a fan of the NBA. NBAtradetracker.net is a new site, not even a week old, dedicating itself to breaking down how some of the greatest trades actually came to fruition changing the course of the sport as we know it. For their inaugural post, the team describes how Earvin "Magic" Johnson ended up in Los Angeles, and not Chicago. Without ruining the clip, NBATT weaves through the complicated scenario of draft picks, horrible records, once in [...]

Hollywood's most generous stars dazzled on the blue carpet at Sunday night's 2011 Do Something! Awards held at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. Allie is Wired was there to catch it all! The Do Something! Awards honor young people's commitment to social change and also award celebrities who give back. The awards air on Thursday, August 18th, 2011 at 9/8c on VH1 but we have all of the blue carpet coverage right here, right [...]

Photo: Sports Illustrated Analyzing the NBA's bygone times tend to get academic. Eras don't match up well thanks to play styles and rule changes taking their toll on the game. Additionally, it's pretty difficult to appreciate key moments before your time. I wasn't even a thought in 1980 so I can't draw from personal experience. With that said, there are always a few moments preceding your existence that make you shake your head in amazement. Sports heads already know the story of Earvin "Magic" Johnson's rookie season. He played phenomenally [...]

Photos from Getty Images The recent success of the Mavericks proves it pays to be competitive in the NBA. The latest NBA champs currently have the second highest payroll in the league at roughly $90 million. Granted, plenty of the franchise's contracts subside on July 1, but they'll still have to re-sign important members like Tyson Chandler and J.J. Barea to potentially build their trophy case. Talks of the new collective bargaining agreement and it's proposed "adjusted" salary cap will put the clamps on spending and player movement for more than a few [...]

Photo: My ETSF Brothers Looking back, Game 1 of the 2001 NBA Finals was just that, one game. A chink in the Los Angeles Lakers armor that was the 2001 postseason in which they won a ridiculous 15 out of 16 games en route to their second consecutive championship. Shaq was in his prime while then-22-year-old Kobe Bryant made the jump from prodigy to superstar (his points per game average skyrocketed from 22.5 to 28.5). And Phil Jackson and Tex Winter's triangle wizardry was proving it could cross time zones [...]

Even when they're gone, the Los Angeles Lakers find a way to keep their name in the news. A major storyline heading into the offseason revolved around the team and who would be chosen to succeed Phil Jackson. As luck would have it, Laker Nation has to wait no longer. The Mike Brown era in Los Angeles has officially begun. Brown, an ESPN analyst and the 2008-09 NBA coach of the year, emerged as the leading candidate for the vacancy created when Phil Jackson retired after a strong face-to-face [...]

Bynum sent out a quite contrived tweet last night, singing the good virtues of the Mavs JJ Barea. Unfortunately, Andrew's going to need way more effort in order for anyone to lose sight of the fact that he hit dude with that off-the-turnbuckle type elbow . H/T: Cosby Sweaters

- Budden now gets a scarlet letter "A" for "Abuser." - MZ talks karoake music . - A full list of crappy movies in this week's "Random Netflix." - Jon Stewart ripped Faux News for ripping the White House and Common. - Feast your eyes on Michelle Amara , a fit and lovely Lingerie Football player. - What will the Lakers do now after being eliminated from the postseason? - TC [...]

The end is always ugly, but rarely has a team heard the death knell in such a complete fashion as the Lakers did this past week. Expected to easily dispatch of a Dallas team that didn't seem particularly stronger than past iterations, the Lake Show may have had the curtains called on them instead. The finality of Game 4's blowout, complete with the petulant acts of childishness from Bynum and Odom, belies this truth: the Lakers as we know it are done winning titles. The 2011 playoffs mark the end of the Kobe Era. [...]

A week after receiving the honor of the NBA's most polite individual (the citizenship award), Ron Artest allowed his frustrations, and probably the Lakers' as a whole, to get the best of him. In the wanning moments of the Game 2 debacle against the Dallas Mavericks, Queensbridge's finest clotheslined J.J. Barea - who all but sparked Mark Cuban's investment to the victory with timely shots. Artest was given the boot and now it appears an already discombobulated Lakers, with a nonexistent bench, may be one man short for tomorrow's Game 3. [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =CgkKDwVitOM&feature=related Shortly after the Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA Finals in 2009. DJ Class released "I'm the ish" (Lakers remix). Above is the remix with a verse by Kanye West. With the Lakeshow about