Sports - Los Angeles Lakers #51: because the team that wins together, stays together - Page 3

miSStakentriSh · 06-24-2009, 12:00 AM

you guys are already writing matt/trev/kobe, I DONT EVEN NEED TO WRITE IT

NessaBruin · 06-24-2009, 12:37 AM

i already have 4 lines for next weeks fic

miSStakentriSh · 06-24-2009, 12:53 AM

jeez, i haven't even started.

Quote:

Kurt Rambis, Phil Jackson mull life ahead with Lakers
After Jackson says in a radio interview that the organization has "toyed" with the idea of him coaching fewer road games, Rambis acknowledges it's "one of the many ideas we kicked around a little."
By Broderick Turner

11:45 PM PDT, June 23, 2009

Lakers assistant coach Kurt Rambis spent most of Tuesday waxing his truck, relaxing and running to get food for his daughter later that night when his telephone began ringing constantly, all wanting to know his feelings about the comments from Lakers Coach Phil Jackson.

Rambis, after picking up dinner, said he had been aware that Jackson is open to the idea of having Rambis coach some road games next season in his place and that Jackson will make a decision on his coaching future in early July.

Rambis coached one game for Jackson last season when he elected to remain in Los Angeles instead of traveling to Portland for the game because of swelling in his legs from plantar fasciitis.

"This is not new to me," Rambis, who was one of the final candidates for the Sacramento Kings head coaching job, said late Tuesday night. "This is one of the many ideas we kicked around a little.

"The hardest part about the job is the travel. It's especially hard when you have physical issues. There's some travel that are particularly grueling. He can take tough road trips off. Phil is probably at a point where he is looking to wind his career down and I'm looking to wind my career up."

While doing a radio interview with 710 AM Tuesday morning, Jackson reiterated what he told reporters last Friday at the team's training facility in El Segundo -- that his health would be the only reason to keep him from coaching next season.

Jackson said he will soon have some tests to determine his health and that if it turns out favorable "that there's no doubt" that he'll return to coach the Lakers for the 2009-10 season, which he is set to earn $12 million.

Jackson, who turns 64 in September, told the radio station that the organization has "toyed" with the idea of him skipping some road games and with having Rambis take over the head coaching duties in his place.

Jackson has had two hip-replacement surgeries, an angioplasty and gout during his two stints coaching the Lakers.

Rambis said the idea is to keep Jackson healthy for the long run and physically fit so the Lakers have a better chance at defending the championship they just won.

"Everybody benefits," Rambis said. "Phil remains fresh without having the season and the travel wear him down. It gives me valuable coaching experience. What the future holds beyond Phil, I don't know. But this keeps continuity of what we're doing, what we do defensively and offensively."

NessaBruin · 06-24-2009, 12:56 AM

well if everyone can stay I say go for it

and look 1

and its fine, remember I was like halfway done and then that 2nd half took forever

miSStakentriSh · 06-24-2009, 11:58 AM

NessaBruin · 06-24-2009, 12:28 PM

Jordy

LAKERS: From The Locker Room - Jordan Farmar
and I see his dad behind him at the end, that's where he gets his ears from

miSStakentriSh · 06-24-2009, 04:34 PM

he looks so much like his dad, it's crazy

AND AW, ASKED ABOUT HIS BEST FRIEND IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.

NessaBruin · 06-24-2009, 07:35 PM

of course he was, I liked how he basically said all Luke did was lose beforehand

i want october naaaaoooo

**satisfy the crave** · 06-25-2009, 04:40 AM

Hmmm...interesting stuff about Phil and Kurt.

What do you guys think of Shaq going to the Cavs?

peanut99 · 06-26-2009, 08:43 AM

this poor thread needs love.

aww jordy

I don't know about the Shaq trade, he isn't really the kind of help I thought Lebron needed but I guess I'll have to wait to see how they work out together

NessaBruin · 06-26-2009, 03:24 PM

seriously, poor thread needs some loving

yeah I guess we just have to wait and see how they work together, idk, it doesn't really scare me, but

Pau is going to be interviewed on the Dodgers pre-game show tonight from what I heard

and I'm wearing my championship shirt like the one the boys wore at the parade (the cartoonish one)

miSStakentriSh · 06-26-2009, 04:40 PM

i actually thought that was a stupid move on the cavs part, but whatever floats their boat

i ranted already to my friend about it, LOL. like i mean, i don't think it'll help them any because really, they're going to need their other players to step up and crap. but whatever.

what do you guys think of vince carter to magic?

NessaBruin · 06-26-2009, 04:49 PM

that one, idk, I mean I understand they were probably gonna get rid of Rafer but they also gave up Courtney Lee, IDK what to make of it yet, I'm just glad we got moolah now to try to pay our boys

peanut99 · 06-26-2009, 05:33 PM

Oh yay for your shirt!

yeah the trade doesn't scare me at all, and like T said I thought it was a pretty silly move honestly.

the vince carter move I don't know about, I can understand them wanting him. But I don't understand giving up Lee and now people are saying they probably won't bring Hedo back so I really dont know.

Yes lets be paying our boys and bringing them back!

miSStakentriSh · 06-26-2009, 06:14 PM

"amare stoudemire" was being a fool on twitter and said he was a laker. i was like "....uh. what?"

exactly, right. i mean, it's like all these teams are making weird moves to get "superstars" rather than players that will actually compliment the roster they already have. it's kinda ridic. reminds me of us in '03 - '04 when we went off and got payton and malone. mind, we didn't have to trade anybody or whatever, so it worked in our favour, really.

it's almost my birfday, i'll send my birfday cash to the lakers to keep the boys