LAUNFD presents FOR THE CITY NBA CHARITY BBALL GAME

 

Baron Davis along with Tina Thompson and the good folks of LAUNFD are having a charity basketball game featuring many of the NBA players that were born and raised here in Los Angeles.  Should be pretty exciting looking at the names on the list.  If you haven't gotten your tickets then go to the Facebook page and get yours.  Proceeds go to the Kids in Sports LA Foundation.

LAUFND presents

Nice charity event put on by Baron Davis and Tina Thompson this weekend along with LAUNFD.  Your favorite hometown products to make names for themselves in the NBA will be on hand to show off and give us some much needed HOOPS!!!. Get your tickets here.

TREVOR ARIZA...officially A NEW ORLEANS HORNET

Don't know what this does for the Hornets overall, but local product Ariza is now a part of that team.  Done in a 4 team trade and hoping this will keep Chris Paul in place...I hope it works out.  It sucks that just when he thought he was a part of something in a place he chose to go, he gets booted to a team that did worse than they did.  I won't mind seeing CP3 throw lobs to him though...

LAKERS...WE BETTER FIGURE THIS OUT

Though some things are all hearsay and rumors to make people pay attention to the NBA even in the off-season; the home team better figure out this Ariza & Odom situation pronto. Free Agency really screws up the NBA but it's business and as long as the institution can generate billions off of these dudes talents and athleticism...they DESERVE ALL OF THEIR MONEY, yeah I said it. But at the same time a little less pay and chances to chase more rings (that equal bonus pay) will get you a better payoff later. Anyway we'll see how this plays out.

THE LAKERS x KIMMEL

C'mon now...the Talk Show circuit is a bit more than just Conan...it's pretty funny. Peep it out.

LOS ANGELES LAKERS - 1 STEP CLOSER...

They had me on the edge of my seat and a lil nervous but in Championship form they pushed, paced and ultimately moved ahead of the Nuggets and got the 1st win.  A good test for the squad and they passed.  We definitely have no answer for 'Melo at the moment...but there usually is a player on a team who consistently has his way in a series.  As long as we contain Chauncey like Kobe did and don't allow K Mart to feel he has a jumper...then we'll be fine.  Let's GO Lake Show.  Trevor made the play of the game and post game I saw JR Smith at the club and he was definitely limping out the club with 3 chicks behind him (the pros and cons of being an injured NBA player).

LOS ANGELES LAKERS - 1 of 16

My boys made me proud yesterday...now if we can get about 15 more wins over the next month or so...then we came to do what we're meant to do. Go LAKE SHOW!!!  Oh and Trevor showed up big time dropping a playoff career high 21.  There are some proud people, one in particular I can think of.

LAKERS > DALLAS, ask Julien Edwards

So yeah, the Lakers slipped for a minute and allowed this to become a game yesterday afternoon...but these guys named Trevor Ariza (career high 26pts) and this guy Kobe (u may have heard of him) basically said WE WILL NOT LOSE!!!  If you can youtube highlights of yesterday please peep the deep 3 that killed Dallas' confidence and made Julien Edwards regret being a Mavs fan, smh.  Oh yeah Kobe for Finals MVP.  Interesting thing i just read about Kobe and being season MVP.  The fact that Kobe has been so great over the years people feel he's not killing because him scoring 40 points in a game is so expected of him.  The 30+ he puts up is easy to him...I guess dropping 61 at the 'Garden' in limited minutes was just ok.  Let's score 90 and maybe folks will go ohhhh, that guy is good.

THE NBA HAS GONE SOFT!!!!

OK, lemme start by saying it's sad that Rudy got hurt on the play and I don't think his injuries are fake but if you saw that damn play...Trevor did nothing flagrant.  He blocked the ball and caught a little arm.  Okay call it a foul if you must...but an ejection and flagrant two, HELL NAH!!!  The momentum put Rudy at the wrong end of it but ever since that brawl at the Palace in Detroit anytime a play causes a ruckus between benches some BS call and ejection is made just to make a point.  And the stretcher effect and the player being 100% for the same game or next...it's getting old Mr. Stern.  It's a physical game I agree but if we're gonna pay attn to fouls and violence (verbal/physical) in the NBA game we gotta know what fouls are flagrant and which are innocent and just end up having painful effects.  Aiight that's my NBA rant for today.  But Shawn Chrys know what I'm talkin about.

TREVOR ARIZA - WESTCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL

As long as I can remember Westchester High was a basketball powerhouse...now you all know that I am a LAKER fan to the heart and I'm in support of all things LA.  So to see that someone decided to do a video on Trevor Ariza, a Los Angeles Laker and Westchester/UCLA product I'm all about posting it up here.  Trevor is cool with a bunch of folks I know and he's a steady contributor to our quest for the NBA Championship so he's gonna get the pub on Eazee Street.  So check this out and learn a little more about Trevor and Westchester High.  Spotted this at C-San's spot (he's a Westchester product as well).

TREVOR ARIZA x LRG PHOTOSHOOT

LA LAKER TREVOR ARIZA - LIVE FROM THE L-R-G SPRING 09 PHOTOSHOOT

So word on the streets is Trevor is posing for LRG...guess one good West Coast representer deserves another (see: Shawn Chrys). Shout to Jesse over at LRG.