Master Dilettante

Since rejoining the Lakers bandwagon earlier this year, I’ve said that a championship in 2008 would be gravy. Next year, with a full season of Gasol and a returning Bynum, is the one I’m really excited to watch. The Lakers’ run through the playoffs this year was definitely exciting. I couldn’t have imagined that they [...]

In 1984, I first joined Lakers fandom. As a native Los Angeleno, I claim an inalienable right to root for the team (unlike transplants into L.A. or out-of-staters or San Diegans who adopt the team for their own) — but I admit I have strayed. I followed the Lakers obsessively through the Showtime era and [...]