When you’re the champs you have to show up and play like champions every night. With the Brooklyn New Jersey Nets visiting Staples Center, the Lakers needed to send a message.
No disrespect to New Jeruz, but if there is any serious chance at 70 wins for this Laker squad then teams with 0-16 records must go down and they must go down hard.
Jordan Farmar showed a champions effort when he made sure Rafer Alston knew there are no easy buckets to be found in Downtown L.A. Keep trying Skip, you’re about as close to winning a title in the Garden state as you were to winning one in the Sunshine state.