Antawn Jamison News

The Los Angeles Lakers do not yet know Dwight Howard's decision for next season, but the All-Star center made his feelings about Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni known before starting his offseason.

In this post series, we'll take a look just at what went wrong for the 2012-2013 LA Lakers.

Nothing sums up Mike D'Antoni's year with the Lakers better than the "We Want Phil!" emanating from the Lakers faithful.

Gasol sat out eight Los Angeles Lakers games this season because of tendon soreness in both knees.

Kobe Bryant's battle with his mother was one of the low lights of an active week for the Los Angeles Lakers following their elimination from the NBA playoffs.

LeBron James has spent the better part of his 10-year career forcing his way into historically exclusive company, then whittling away his peers until he's the last man standing.

Even if Dwight Howard walks and Metta World Peace gets amnestied, they're still too far over the salary cap to chase any big-name free agents.

No team in the NBA this season has had as bad of an identity crisis as the Los Angeles Lakers had this season.

Given that the Lakers don't own any picks in the upcoming draft, the first real decisions will be made in free agency.

However, while it is convenient to evaluate the team as a whole with regard to how it performed during the four games of the series, it will be more interesting to review the performance of the players themselves.

Jan. 30, 2013; Phoenix, AZ, USA: Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Nash and Kobe Bryant in the huddle with teammates in the second half against the Phoenix Suns at the US Airways Center.

It's this simple: The Lakers players believe if management will bring this core with Mike D'Antoni as the coach for one more season they can make a serious run at a title.

Like almost all of the Lakers , Antawn Jamison did not have a great season. He was also injured.

Not everyone in the NBA is thrilled about having a gay dude in the league -- in fact, there are definitely some "closed-minded" haters who are gonna have a hard time with Jason Collins ... so says NBA star Antawn Jamison .

If you want to sum up this failure of a Los Angeles Lakers season, start with the calendar.

In the 3rd quarter of game 4 of the Spurs @ Lakers round 1 Western Conference series, Tony Parker drivers hard past Pau Gasol and Antawn Jamison in the paint for a tough, underhand, reverse, circus layup.

Facing a 0-3 deficit to the surging San Antonio Spurs, the Los Angeles Lakers probably will run out of games in their season before they run out of healthy players.

Metta World Peace tried to give it a go Friday night against San Antonio - he'd had fluid removed from his knee less than 24 hours before but tried to get out on the court.

The Lakers' Dwight Howard #12 is swarmed by the Spurs' Manu Ginobili #20, Tim Duncan #12 and Kawhi Leonard #2 during game three of their NBA Western Conference playoffs at the Staples Center Friday, April 26, 2013.

People who claim that the Los Angeles Lakers had one of the most disappointing seasons in NBA history are overreacting.