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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 07/18/2012

[caption id="attachment_2003" align="aligncenter" width="586"] Reinhold Matay / Associated Press / March 26, 2010[/caption]Andrew UpshawThe NBA off-season has been exciting and many teams have improved or changed drastically. The NBA champion...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 07/06/2012

Andrew Upshaw[caption id="attachment_1994" align="aligncenter" width="298"] Harry How/Getty Images[/caption]As every one now knows Steve Nash is now a laker. The Suns traded the two-time MVP to the Lakers for future draft picks and 3 million...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 05/24/2012

Andrew UpshawKobe Bryant has won 5 championships. His teams have almost always been title contenders and every year The lakers don't win it is seen as a disappointment. Kobe hasn't won a championship in 11 of his 16 seasons though. We definitely...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 05/22/2012

Andrew Upshaw[caption id="attachment_1811" align="aligncenter" width="291"] These guys were supposed to dominate[/caption]In the aftermath of the Thunder seriesLaker fans are looking for answers. The guys taking the biggest hit are Pau Gasol and...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 05/22/2012

Andrew UpshawThe Thunder are better than the Lakers. By a wide margin. They let the Lakers hang around for 2 and a half quarters before Russell Westbrook decided to destroy Ramon Sessions forever. From there this game was over. I don't even know...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 05/20/2012

Andrew UpshawThat was the worst Laker loss in DAYS. The Lakers lost game 4, another game they HAD to have in a similar fashion to the way they lost game 2. This time it was Pau Gasol who made the terrible mistake down the stretch. For those that...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 05/17/2012

Andrew UpshawMan, what a heartbreaking-ass loss. The Lakers did everything right in game 2 and still lost at the end. It was game the lakers needed to have after getting destroyed by the Thunder in-game 1. They now are down 0-2 to the Thunder and...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 05/15/2012

Andrew UpshawNOPENICE TRY...He made it...So did he...COME ON! Really!?!Great. Now my mom's dog Becky is sad.I'm kinda sad too. I'm going to try to talk myself into thinking that the Lakers can win this series or at least one game against the...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 05/13/2012

Andrew UpshawThe lakers follow-up their worst loss of the post season with a pretty good win. It was the type of play that i expected from them in game 6, not 7 but whatever, I'll take the win. The key to the game was the Laker's big men, the same...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 05/10/2012

Andrew Upshaw (kind of)It's Thursday! I really don't have anything in depth to write about just a few random thoughts and such. A bunch of other people wrote some ish that I liked so I'll Throw in some Links:Last night's playoff games were pretty...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 05/09/2012

Andrew UpshawThe Lakers had a great opportunity to knock Denver out the playoff at home and blew it. For the first four games of the series just about everything went right for the Lakers: Kobe and Bynum dominated, Gasol racked up assist after...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 05/06/2012

Andrew UpshawA week in the playoffs and a lot of crazy ish has happened. Last year's MVP went down with a torn ACL which dashed the Bull's chances of winning the title. The D Rose-less Bulls are struggling to beat the eighth seeded Sixers and are...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 04/12/2012

Andrew UpshawThe lakers have gone 2-1 without Kobe this week including a beat down of the hottest team in basketball the Spurs tonight. During this stretch the lakers have revolved around their big men, finally. PauGasol and Andrew bynum have...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 03/28/2012

Andrew Upshaw12 days ago the lakers traded for Ramon Sessions and became a legitimate threat in the Western Conference. They've played relatively well since the trade. But everything else isn't going as smoothly. First every one overreacted o the...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 02/23/2012

Andrew UpshawA lot of drama for the Lakers this week off the court. On the court they've been playing well so far. Hopefully they can keep it up against OKC tomorrow night. I went to the laker game against Portland and had great seats. There...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 01/16/2012

By Andrew UpshawKobe has scored 40 in the past five games. The Lakers are 4-1 in those games. I hate the Lakers style of play in those games. Kobe is hogging the ball at 2006 rates. Yes, it's amazing that he still can score like that but it's ugly...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 01/04/2012

By Andrew UpshawCan we please stop the rumors of Dwight Howard coming to LA? Bynum is a monster so far this season and together with Gasol they are the BEST forecourt in the NBA. Yes, Dwight is better individually than both Bynum and Gasol but the...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 01/01/2012

By Andrew UpshawThe NBA is now a week old. There have been a handful of great games already the best being Dallas vs. OKC in which Durant hit a game winning three to win the game with 1.4 sends left on the clock. The Lakers stand at 3-2 at the...

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By Andrew Upshaw @ 4 Hoops Heads 12/11/2011

By Andrew UpshawLamar Odom is no longer a Laker. As I said on my post earlier to some Laker fans Lamar has always been a Laker. Seven years is a long time in today's sports world. Lamar has been trade bait his entire Laker career and just recently...

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