The Lake Show’s in Town

NBA team, the Los Angeles Lakers, are holding their training camp in Hawaii, leading up to exhibition games against the Golden State Warriors on October 11 and 12. The Lakers missed the playoffs last year and don’t seem much improved this year other than the return of coach Phil Jackson.

The Lakers’ coaching staff has more talent than their current roster. In their heyday, I’d take a team of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Scottie Pippen, Kurt Rambis, and Brian Shaw over Kwame Brown, Devean George, Aaron McKie, Stanislav Medvedenko, and “Smush” Parker(?!). Only Kobe and Lamar Odom got solid NBA cred.