STAND PAT AND PRAY.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH If we are left to read the tealeaves swirling around in the bottom of the Styrofoam cups sitting on the uncluttered desks of Mitch Kupchak Mitchell "Mitch" Kupchak (born May 24 1954 in Hicksville, New York) is a retired American basketball player and current general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers since the 2000-01 NBA season after predecessor Jerry West moved to the Memphis Grizzlies organization. and Elgin Baylor Elgin Gay Baylor (born September 16, 1934 in Washington, D.C.) is a retired American basketball player who played 13 seasons as a forward for the NBA's Minneapolis Lakers/Los Angeles Lakers. Baylor was a gifted shooter, a strong rebounder, and an accomplished passer. , are the Lakers and Clippers so fat 'n' happy with where their bobbers are floating in the Pacific Division fishing derby Fishing Derby is an Atari 2600 video game created by Activision programmer David Crane based on the sport of fishing. In Fishing Derby, two fishermen sit on opposite docks over a lake filled with fish (and a shark that passes through). that their GMs only have to think up new twists on the "we tried, but there was nothing out there that matched up right" answers to media questions about why no player transactions were consummated by Thursday's NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= trade deadline? Aren't the Clippers seriously in danger of becoming ... the Clippers? Aren't the Lakers seriously in danger of becoming ... the Clippers? If the entire Clippers roster was suddenly issued postal carrier outfits to wear each night, would they then be authorized to cut out the middle man and deliver, straight to the fans, the games they've been mailing in for the past few months? Is that an icy stare Phil Jackson will be giving Vlad Radmanovic from here until the winter thaw? Sure he didn't separate that shoulder dropping a beer bottle in a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of bar? Didn't he realize the slippery slope 'slippery slope' Medical ethics An ethical continuum or 'slope,' the impact of which has been incompletely explored, and which itself raises moral questions that are even more on the ethical 'edge' than the original issue he'd be heading down by hanging around Kwame Brown too long? Will Jason Kidd now be forced to discover NewJersey really is hell on earth? Who, in the name of model citizens, or citizens who hook up with models, will end up making the best absentee dad, Matt Leinart or Tom Brady? How is it that Chief Illiniwek has been forced now to fold up his teepee for the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga franchise that blatantly points out the reddish skin color of the Native American Indian in a way that hardly is as honorable as what the Illini faithful have done in the Midwest? If we someday end up in Vegas, and Pacman Jones and his group of closets friends happen to get behind us in the same Circus Circus buffet line, and he takes out a wad of large bills because he decides it's time to tip the busboys, would it be proper etiquette for us to drop our plates at that very moment and run like a Siegfried and Roy's white tiger as fast as we could toward the Liberace Museum in order to curl up in a ball under one of those grand pianos until the champagne bottles stop flying? Jim Carrey in "The Number 23" has nothing to do with explaining the demonic nuances to Michael Jordan's "Space Jam?" thomas.hoffarth@dailynews.com (818) 713-3661 |
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