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Lakers vs. 76ers, Mike Brown's Technicals & Stephen A Says to Wait for KG?

3,340 views · Published 6 February 2012 · 2:54 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: Lakers Nation · 2012 · Sports

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With the football season now officially behind us, the NBA now takes center stage in professional sports, and the Lakers are not exactly stealing the spotlight.  At 14-10, the lakers are seventh in the western conference and if the playoffs were today, the purple and gold would find themselves playing the second place Clippers.  
Stephen A Smith wrote an interesting piece last week for espnla where he calls for the lakers to call this season a bust and focus on next season.  Smith makes the case of keeping the front court in tact , " That way they can bow out of the 2012 postseason gracefully and make a run at Kevin Garnett via free agency in the summer, positioning themselves to spend the last two years of the Black Mamba's contract by once again contending for a title.". He goes on to say, "Gasol looks lost. Kobe looks frustrated. Bynum looks more interested in racing his sport cars than playing the game. And the rest of this team looks virtually ... irrelevant!".  
Does Smith have a point?  Do the Lakers start looking at next season as they're running out of options?

Meanwhile, the frustration was evident during Saturdays matchup against Utah when coach Mike Brown was ejected for voicing his frustration with the officials over a non-call when Pau Gasol was stripped of the ball and fell to the floor.  Brown said after the loss, "I was trying to give our guys some extra juice.  "I wish I wouldn't have put my team in a hole or predicament like that, Now I need to make sure that I don't do it again in the future".  his two technicals cost the lakers a couple of free throws, but it could even cost him a suspension for making contact with the ref.  


Next up for The Lake Show are the 17-7 Philadelphia 76ers, whom they take on tonight from the Wells Fargo Arena at 7 pm eastern, and you can catch all the action on KCAL 9.


And finally, I'd like to give a couple of shout outs to a couple of Lakersnation followers... The first is Joanna Gutierrez of Palmdale, California who sent us this beautiful picture of her little baby girl Olyssa, who is ALSO a lakers fan of course.  Joanna's favorite Laker is Pau and she'd like to let him know that she's his biggest fan.  And then there is Nick Kable of San Marcos, California who wants to show off his Kobe Bryant shrine that includes, jerseys, shoes, and all kinds of memorabilia...Nick is quite the Lakers fan as you can tell and he is not at all shy about.  Thanks for sharing Nick.

That's all for now LakersNation, remember you can follow me on twitter @jaybarquero, or shoot me an email at [email protected] and I'm still searching for diehard fans for us to visit and feature right here.  We'll see you tomorrow.

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