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Managing editor @LakersNation . Also contribute to @DodgerBlue1958 and @RamsNewswire . Contact: Daniel @MediumLargeLA .com

Newport Beach, CA
Joined October 2009
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2 years
Gunna walking out of Crypto like he just dropped 40 😭
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The worst 3-point shooting team in the NBA just had the greatest 3-point shooting game ever. Lol
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The Lakers shot 62.9% from three, the highest 3-PT FG% in a game with at least 35 attempts in NBA history 👏
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2 years
Malik Monk thinks his role on this Lakers team is “perfect." “My whole career, this is what I’ve been trying to find. I’m glad that Rob called me this summer."
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5 months
The NBA acknowledged three incorrect calls in the final two minutes of last night's game, all of which benefitted the Suns. Grayson Allen fouled Reaves, KD fouled LeBron and Nurkic fouled AD, none of which were called.
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5 months
The L2M report for the qualifying game played yesterday has been posted on .
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2 years
Russell Westbrook is here for the Ham presser.
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1 year
LeBron says he’s got @ShannonSharpe back 🤣
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1 year
The NBA will put out a last two minute report tomorrow and admit that the Lakers were hosed once again. Nothing will change though.
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3 years
"This is the first time in my career I've looked down and be like, 'That motherf---er can make that shot too.’"
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Lakers Nation
3 years
LEBRON IS CLUTCH
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3 years
LeBron says it “absolutely” registered to him that he was playing against Ziaire Williams tonight, who was Bronny’s high school teammate and he had to shake his head and laugh about it. “Happy for the kid obviously, but I had a moment for sure."
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2 years
When LeBron talks shit >
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2 years
LeBron went off on Bill Oram at the end of this 😳
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3 years
Watching Kobe highlights never gets old.
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2 years
Do the Lakers suck? Yes. Would any team want to face this version of LeBron in the playoffs? No.
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1 year
D'Angelo Russell on playing the Timberwolves in the Play-In: "It's not the fact that they traded me, but the fact that they're in the way of what we're trying to get done, that's all that really matters to me. Trying to start to prepare mentally right now."
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2 years
Feels like the Lakers have played either the Kings or Grizzlies in half their games this season.
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2 years
Russell Westbrook says he did not watch the #NBA75 ceremony because he was celebrating his mom’s birthday. He’s missed a lot of her birthdays over the years so he was happy to be able to celebrate with her this year.
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5 months
Lakers won by 40 and AD is still getting lectured? Lol
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5 months
"You got to show up on a night in night out basis. You can't be a roller coaster." 👀 Stephen A. Smith on AD
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LeBron says the Nuggets are probably the best team he and AD have faced since they joined the Lakers, and he (literally) tipped his cap to Jokic for some of his ridiculous shots:
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4 months
NBA heard all the complaining last night and said actually, the Lakers should’ve had more free throws.
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4 months
NBA says it missed two calls in the final two minutes of Lakers-Raptors….but don’t show Darko. Both mistakes disadvantaged the Lakers
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2 years
With or without Kyrie, this guy is the key to the Lakers' season.
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6 months
The funniest part about this is that nobody was saying that they wouldn't respect the chip while it was going on. Everyone was enjoying the bubble, it was actually great hoops. The "asterisk" came after a certain team and player won it.
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Lou Williams talking about his best chance to win was with the Clippers bubble team. He says, “We started to hear the rumblings that nobody is going to respect this chip so we kind of just took our foot off the gas” This was our BEST chance man, hurts to hear it 💔
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If the Lakers don’t trade for Anthony Davis, they’re “stuck” with: -The best player in the world -A promising young core -37+ mil in cap space -All of their draft picks
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2 years
LeBron James has been voted an All-Star captain for the fifth straight year. LeGM is 4-0 so far
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4 years
We were out here rooting for Ronnie Price, Ryan Kelly and Robert Sacre. Real ones know.
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2 years
If THIS is the Kendrick Nunn the Lakers are gonna get...
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4 years
Several Clippers were so fatigued during Game 7 against Denver that they struggled to play stints longer than three minutes and asked out of the game for a breather in the fourth quarter, sources told @TheUndefeated .
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1 year
Lakers sent out Max Christie to address the crowd before the final regular season game lol
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1 year
Kerr called out the Lakers for flopping just for his team to flop all over the place in the first half.
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4 years
Jose Altuve heading to the tattoo shop after seeing that Correa interview:
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Troy Brown Jr. and Rui Hachimura are getting in some extra shooting work with Phil Handy after practice.
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7 months
Last two players in the gym today…
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4 years
Ramona said on First Take that Jeanie and Rob drove down to OC to be with Vanessa when they found out the news yesterday. The Lakers have not released a statement or anything because they’re letting Vanessa take the lead on this. I can only imagine what they’re all going through
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1 year
Rui only played 11 minutes tonight. Would like to see that increase, Warriors didn't really have anyone on the wing to match his size.
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1 year
Pat before the bubble:
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1 year
“We think we would've won a championship if it wasn't for the bubble.” - Pat Bev on the Clippers (Via @joeylinn_ )
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3 years
Year 18 and LeBron is still absolutely incredible.
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1 year
Darvin Ham on AD getting going in the second half: "His dumbass coach started calling more plays for him."
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4 years
Alex Caruso is a winning basketball player. Plain and simple.
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8 days
Phil Handy had one year left on his contract with the Lakers. By firing him, they are giving him a chance to pursue other opportunities whether that be as a head coach or an assistant instead of essentially forcing him onto the staff of the next head coach. It's always possible…
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In addition to Darvin Ham, the #Lakers have also fired all of the assistants on his staff.
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2 months
Incredible photo taken by USA Today.
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5 months
Is it just me or does every Lakers/Mavs game feel like the same exact game?
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2 years
Even LeBron’s biggest haters have to respect the level he’s been playing at the last month. We’ve never seen anything like it in Year 19.
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1 year
DLo looks ready to roll for tomorrow.
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4 years
LeBron made the winning bucket and then locked up Kawhi and PG on the same possession
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2 years
“So Anthony, what are your thoughts on coming and teaming up with AD after LeBron retires?”
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4 years
I’m still in shock that Kyle Kuzma and Rajon Rondo ran the Thunder out of their own gym last night.
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2 years
The comments section of Dennis Schroder’s IG post this morning…
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4 years
That song always makes me emotional because of Paul Walker. Now hearing it for Kobe too... man. What an emotional night.
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1 year
Rui is here and he’s already getting to work with Phil Handy.
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3 months
LeBron: 24.2 PTS, 8.3 AST AD: 24.5 PTS, 5.0 AST DLo: 20.3 PTS, 8.2 AST AR: 20.3 PTS, 6.9 AST
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I heard a stat that LeBron, AD, DLo, & AR are all averaging at least 20 points & 5 assists in February… Ain’t no way that’s real right?
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2 years
Austin Reaves on hitting a game-winning shot with LeBron, Russ and AD on the floor: “I grew up watching all these guys play so for me to just be teammates with them is special."
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12 days
A buyout player in there over Austin Reaves with the season on the line. Make it make sense.
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2 years
Future Laker Jayson Tatum thinking about how he’s gonna call this place home in a few years.
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1 year
Why is goaltending reviewable but when LeBron gets obviously hacked on the final play of a game it's not?
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5 years
When you create the max cap space that Woj said you wouldn’t be able to create and get the meeting with Kawhi when Woj said it was a two-team race between the Raptors and Clippers
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1 year
Pau’s jersey going next to Kobe’s 24 while Shaq is next to 8 is very fitting.
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Lonnie Walker IV on his big night (wholesome content alert):
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1 year
NBA L2M Report says the #Lakers were on the wrong end of some calls late in last night’s game:
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2 months
This is the exact same play that got Reddish hurt in the first place and made him miss a month of action.
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2 months
Cmon man lol
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5 years
#Lakers front office came in with a team that consisted of questionable young players like DLo, Randle and Clarkson and 2 of the worst contracts in the league in Deng and Mozgov. 2.5 years later, the Lakers have LeBron and Anthony Davis with the potential to add a third star.
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If this is the Gabe Vincent the Lakers are gonna get in the playoffs, him providing nothing in the regular season will be worth it.
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4 years
Happy birthday, Kobe. Miss you every day 💜💛
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4 months
Posting a fourth quarter free throw discrepancy without acknowledging that one team was literally putting the other team at the free throw line on purpose is pretty disingenuous but that’s NBA Twitter for you I guess.
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2 months
Pat Bev with 0s across the board and DLo dotted his eyes with several 3s. "Belt 2 A$$"
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Something that remains baffling to me is how the Lakers front office saw how the Nuggets series went last year and decided that they didn't need to pick up a viable backup center option either in the summer or at the deadline. As soon as AD gets into foul trouble or needs a rest,…
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2 years
Why exactly did Rob Pelinka get an extension?
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AD in the building
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1 year
There was no foul called on this...
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LeBron James: "Father Time, for so long, everybody has been saying he's undefeated. So I'm just trying to hand him one loss."
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2 years
After that interview, I’ll put the chances of Russ being a Laker next season at around 0.000001%. Maybe lower.
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2 years
LeBron James is at Summer League.
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Phil Knight just presented LeBron with a cool plaque to commemorate the night
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D’Angelo Russell on if he thought the #Lakers would be at this point in the championship mix after the trades went down at the deadline:
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I know it won’t happen but I’d be lying to you if I said I didn’t want to see Max thrown into the fire in one of these games lol I think he can handle it.
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SportsCenter
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D’Angelo Russell and Max Christie came back out and got shots up following the Lakers’ Game 1 loss.
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D'Angelo Russell says he's a "fan" of his former teammate Spencer Dinwiddie and added that "y'all will get to know him soon."
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Rui Hachimura on his efficiency since joining the starting lineup: "Playing with LeBron and AD, they get a lot of attention so I get a lot of wide-open looks. It's easy, it's a practice shot. I practice with Phil (Handy) all the time and we always talk about it, I got to be the…
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2 years
This season is something else 😂
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Darvin Ham was asked about Jokic and the Nuggets: "We already know that monster in the Rocky Mountains is waiting on us, but can we just enjoy this one first?"
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2 years
Rob Pelinka says Kurt Rambis, Joey Buss and Jesse Buss will be assisting him in roster decisions this summer and he will consult LeBron and AD again, but at the end of the day, the decisions are ultimately up to him and he takes accountability for that.
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2 months
LeBron was in the zone and then they just stopped the game for 20 minutes lol
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2 months
Honestly not a bad take by Nick?
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2 months
"The Lakers should want Denver in Round 1" — @getnickwright tells @ColinCowherd why
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1 year
Big reception for Jack in his return! 🐐
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1 year
The Lakers’ secret weapon against the Grizzlies is in the building for Game 4.
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Max Christie says he's planning on playing in Summer League.
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With the Suns and Clips both losing tonight, Lakers have the best record in the West again.
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Shannon Sharpe is here. LeBron must have given him word that he’s playing 😂
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Malik Monk: “I’m tired of saying it, we got to figure shit out."
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3 years
BREAKING: #Lakers have a new global marketing partnership with Bibigo, a Korean food company, and it will replace Wish on their jerseys this year.
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D'Angelo Russell: "How about Vando tonight? Y'all gotta talk about Vando. Whatever y'all tweet, make sure you give Vando some love."
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DLo rocking a Kobe shirt at practice today.
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4 months
Trying not to overreact here but saying this feels like a slap in the face to the fanbase that lives and dies with the Lakers and spends their hard-earned money to watch the team. Everyone understands that it’s a long season, but this is not what people want to hear when your…
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4 months
Within this answer from Darvin Ham: “I’m tired of people living and dying with every single game we play. It’s ludicrous. Actually. Like, come on, man. It's a marathon."
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Melo was a Hall of Famer coming off the bench on your own team like two years ago, Dame.
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Joey Linn
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Damian Lillard brought up Russell Westbrook’s situation with the Lakers when talking about his own future: “Then they got Russ coming off the bench like he’s not a Hall-of-Famer… Man, that’s Russell Westbrook. Like what?” 🎥: @SHOsports
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Laker fans will riot if they are forced to sit through another full season of this.
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2 years
Austin Reaves needs more help.
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4 years
Staples would’ve been rocking right now.
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5 months
#Lakers neglected the center position in the offseason and it really shows in games AD isn't able to play.
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Daniel Starkand
1 year
AD was sensational in Games 5 and 6 against Memphis, and then Games 1 and 3 against the Warriors. That's four of the Lakers' last five games. This "every other game" narrative is a myth. People are counting Game 6 against Memphis as a bad game because he only had 16 points.
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1 year
Giving LeBron bulletin board material when you're not even in the rotation anymore is certainly a choice.
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JaMychal Green via Instagram. 👀👀👀👀
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LeBron on Austin Reaves: "It's always good to be out on the floor with him. I love AR...all he does is chill, play ball and golf... I'm gonna be a fan of AR for the rest of his career."
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