Last night on the red carpet at the ESPY Awards, Jordan Farmar gave the lip service he had to about the Lamar Odom situation the Lakers have found themselves in. Meanwhile, Carmelo Anthony echoed what I’ve been saying for over a month now — L.O. was the key to the Nuggets series.

Kobe Bryant. This is a given, so I figured I’d get it out of the way. The man is a winner. Unlike Lebron, though, he’s a winner surrounded by other winners. That makes for a winning team.

Lamar Odom. Lamar is one of those guys who is not built like the average player. His abilities don’t make sense for his body type, and he uses that to exploit defenses in ways they’ve never seen from someone who can also cover a 7 footer on defense.

Orlando lives AND dies by the three-pointer. L.A. has been [...]

10 Things That Need to Happen for the Lakers to Win Tonight:
10. No Sasha Vujacic.
9. Less Luke Walton.
8. More Shannon Brown.
7. Did I mention less Sasha Vujacic?
6. Derek Fisher must play less, shoot less.
5. Lamar Odom must play more, handle the ball more, be more aggressive.
4. L.O. and Trevor Ariza must continue to make the Nuggets pay for putting Carmelo Anthony on Kobe Bryant.
3. No more uncontested Kenyon Martin and Nene dunks. That’s mainly on Pau Gasol. On the other end, Pau must make them and the Birdman pay by hitting his free throws.
2. No Socialist Kobe. No spreading the [...]

10 Things I Hate About  the Denver Nuggets:
(By the way, Lakers and Nuggets fans, check out our new Nuggets site — Nugg Love. Going to be a great one. Oh, and Nuggets fans, lighten up a little bit. Have some fun with the smack talk. Wouldn’t be a series without it.)

10. That Carmelo Anthony denounced and rejected the Stop Snitchin’ video. Other than being drafted in the same class as Dwyane Wade and LeBron James, that’s easily the coolest thing he’s been associated with as a pro.
9. That they got rid of this logo.
8. Chris Anderson’s Fonzi feuxhawk. Either go [...]

Think Mark Cuban was wrong to call the Denver Nuggets a bunch of thugs? I’m not so sure he was. Let’s review the case, shall we…

Carmelo Anthony – Appeared in the infamous Stop Snitchin’ video. You know, the one that encouraged criminal informants to stop “snitchin’,” aka informing, to the cops. He’s had two incidents with Mary Jane, an on-court brawl and a DUI case which got pleaded down. This is just the stuff we know about. His wife even recently got kicked out of a game.
Chris “Birdman” Anderson – Anderson was kicked out of the NBA for two years [...]