My latest at silverscreenandroll.com. I still believe that the Lakers will end up with Okafor, and I think he's going to be a fantastic player, but if the Wolves take Jah the Lakers just may luck into Towns.
After a disastrous season the Los Angeles Lakers are sitting pretty with the 2nd overall pick in the 2015 NBA Draft. With the pick comes hope that the team will finally be able to right the ship and truly rebuild one of the great franchises in NBA history. It will allow them to draft a talented player to join a young team that already features promising players like First-team All-Rookie Jordan Clarkson, Julius Randle, and Tarik Black, along with veterans...
after seeing LeFlop, I can really appreciate even more having an athlete to root for who wouldn't give the competition the satisfaction of thinking he was hurt.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — As the Lakers contemplate whom to select with their prized No. 2 overall draft pick, meeting top prospects for get-to-know-you dinners before putting them through the predictable on-court workouts to gauge their skills, allow us to recall what longtime Lakers owner Jerry Buss used to say.
When you're throwing around big words such as future cornerstone and franchise player, character counts.
The Lakers dined with Jahlil Okafor on Monday night, and he might well be their pick over guards D'Angelo Russell and Emmanuel Mudiay, who already broke bread with Lakers officials and later went through drills and workouts, as Okafor will Tuesday morning.
If the Minnesota Timberwolves opt for the all-around, modern-game talents of center Karl-Anthony Towns with the top pick, it would be shocking for the Lakers to pass up the most complete...
