Luke Walton News

It's comforting to know that someone is worried about Jerry Buss. Here is a guy who owns the NBA champions, is a multimillionaire, and dates any starlet he wants, but Mike Bresnahan is wringing his hands in fear that Buss may wind up in the poor house if he pays Lamar Odom $10 million next year.

NBA basketball player Brian Cook, known for keeping his cool on the court, had some last-minute jitters over the weekend - and nobody could blame him.

That right, there is how many years Trevor Ariza has left in Los Angeles: a big fat whopping zero.

For the past two days, I have been hearing reports about Trevor Ariza leaving the Lakers.

I read a very good article recently about rating players the other day and it got me to thinking about the whole psychology of picking a "best" player.

I'm a huge fan of Serena Williams ' backhand and back-side. I've written about the latter several times on the site.

A tag cloud is a visual list of key terms associated with a piece of content. Larger and bolder tags are more relevant to the content.

Fresh off defeating the Orlando Magic to become the 2009 NBA champions and hoping to restrain payroll in an effort to re-sign free agents Lamar Odom and Trevor Ariza , the Los Angeles Lakers went overseas with the 29th pick in Thursday's NBA Draft, selecting selecting nine-year old Otto Schuster of Schmalkalden, Germany .

Three days after the championship, it was time for the celebration. But for many Lakers fans, the biggest reward Wednesday was the strong hint dropped by .

It's June 25, NBA Draft Day as the following scene unfolds before us... LA Lakers to the NBA: "You Can Keep Your Stinking Draft Picks!" by John 'Fatty'-Fatland [HUMOR] 46 reads Humor It's June 25, NBA Draft Day as the following scene unfolds before us.

They finished the job they started last year. They are the NBA champions. Congratulations. Celebrate.

They're the two most historic franchises in the NBA. One has a record 17 championships and 20 finals appearances; the other has been to the finals a record 29 times and won 15.

Team members and city officials held a news conference about a parade honoring the NBA-champion Lakers.

I mentioned it yesterday in posting the Onion satire , but no single player on the the Lakers takes more crap- unnecessarily, I might add- than Luke Walton .

The piece in the link forthcoming was written by the folks over at The Onion , but could just as easily have been put together by a band of like-thinking Lakers Blog readers.

From left, Derek Fisher, Kobe Bryant and Luke Walton celebrate as confetti rains down on the Lakers NBA Finals celebration parade inside the Coliseum on Wednesday.

Hundreds of thousands of Lakers fans descended on downtown Los Angeles, turning the streets and the Coliseum into a sea of purple and gold as the city prepared to celebrate the team's 15th NBA championship with a parade and victory rally.

The business of basketball doesn't wait for anything. Not even victory celebrations.

As 75-year-old Jerry Buss heads into the sunset with his legacy as being the greatest owner in Los Angeles athletic history firmly secure, it's doubtful he wants anything tainting it at this late juncture of what has been a most fascinating life.

Kobe Bryant scratched at it until it bled. Derek Fisher clawed at it until it hurt.