The champagne has barely dried and already the World Champs are preparing for this week’s draft and the start of free agency next week. The Lakers have six potential free agents on their current roster in rotation regulars guards Derek Fisher, Jordan Farmar, Shannon Brown, as well as forwards Adam Morrison, DJ Mbenga, and Josh Powell. Brown has a player option for next season and Farmar is a restricted free agent. But the other three, including co-captain Fisher, are all unrestricted free agents. There’s very little doubt that Fisher is the one free agent that Lakers fans are most afraid [...]
One of the most overly used phrases in sports is the “must-win game”. That’s because 90 percent of the time when fans and pundits use the phrase it’s used inappropriately. You could make a strong case that the Celtics headed into Sunday night’s Game 2 knowing that it was a must-win game. Teams that have gone down 0-2 in the NBA Finals have lost the series 93 percent of the time. So the Celtics approached the game knowing that if they went down 2-0 they would have to win four out of five games against a Lakers team that had [...]
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