I’m not much of a poker player — blogger budgets don’t allow for that type of thing — but at a few different points in time, I’ve put my big boy pants on and pushed my chips to the middle of the table and went all-in. It’s a moment that fills you with terror and r[...]

This is not an indictment of the Mo Williams/Lamar Odom trade. In fact, if you told most Clippers fans that the team would turn Mo Williams into Lamar Odom, they would probably feel pretty good about the situation. But this isn’t about the fact that the roster has been retooled and, in theory, upgra[...]

  Print by Jacob Weinstein — available for purchase here.   Lamar Odom’s entrance to the league couldn’t have come at a better time. I was 14-years-old when Odom was drafted by the Clippers, and my fanhood was in a state of flux. I had loved the Los Angeles Lakers growing[...]

Kevin Arnovitz wrote a great piece at TrueHoop on the return of Lamar Odom. Enjoy. *** Lamar Odom’s parting from the Los Angeles Clippers in August 2003 was a no-brainer, both financially and personally. The Clippers had offered Odom a three-year, $24 million contract, but after losing out on [...]

And with reports coming midday today, Mo Williams has agreed to pick up his option and be traded to the Utah Jazz, the team that first drafted him in 2003. It should be a happy reunion as Kevin O’Connor (Utah’s GM) has stated that not retaining Williams has been the GM’s biggest mi[...]

Special guest Brian Kamenetzky from Land O’Lakers Blog and I talk ball about tonight’s teams and matchup. Know thy opponent: Breene Murphy: The Lakers front line is thin right now, Pau’s playing lots of minutes, so how have they defended opposing bigs? What has been their weakness?[...]