The Dapper Lad

And man it was good.

Down in sunny Los Angeles, where neither of our TWO basketball teams is going to Oklahoma (Seriously? That is actually happening? You people should have built the monorail when you had the chance, then they would’ve stayed), life couldn’t be better.

On Sunday The Lakers took the court in their home white uniforms and played the Enver Nuggets (As Charles Barkley said “There’s no D in Denver), and took their first step to an eventual championship. The Gigantic Spaniard Pau Gasol for at least one game joined the ranks of several other legendary centers to don the purple and gold. He had game high stats in every conceivable category, ran the floor, hit his jumpers, and did something we haven’t seen in years, he made Kobe Bryant, the best player in the league, look like an afterthought.

And afterwards, when he was being interviewed about his phenomenal performance, he deflected so much of the praise onto his teammates that the interviewer actually kicked him in the shin. It was very unprofessional. Erin Andrews would never have done that.

Wow. Sorry. What were we talking about? Oh right, The Lake Show. We have now reached a point when it can be said that Lamar Odom is the most dangerous third option in basketball. He has posted a double double in damn near every game since Pau joined the squad, and one time even did it with three broken ribs and a gunshot wound in his thigh. That might just be a rumor. It actually is just a rumor. We’re trying to start it. Help us out here people! Remember, say it was the LEFT thigh, the right would make no sense at all. He was actually so good last night that he would spend whole defensive series just sitting on Phil Jackson’s lap and laughing at his man’s attempts to score. Normally we are huge fans of Hubris (we have it’s rookie card!) but this was frankly a little off putting.

So now the Lakers are off until Wednesday, when the Nuggets will come back to Staples Center for another good walloping. Hopefully Allen Iverson will manage to stay in this game, as he was thrown out of last night’s affair after two quick technicals in the 4th quarter. We don’t know how the refs could have done that, as he is ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE when he is angry. We’d show you a picture, but we don’t put pictures of losers on our posts. Sorry, Dapperlad Policy. Only winners and Erin Andrews.