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Kobe Elected to 2020 Hall Of Fame Class!
04.04.20
Not that this is any surprise, but the late, great, Kobe Bryant was elected, along with seven others, to the 2020 class of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. With nothing else to talk about right now with the Lakers, it is nice to have something positive to report, even though the world still misses the Black Mamba. Congrats Kobe!
Read more at ESPN.
Lakers Updated Injury Report for 11.03.12
11.03.12
Steve Nash (Out)
Nash’s injury has been diagnosed as a “small non-displaced fracture in the head of his fibula,” and he will miss a minimum of one week.
The Derrick Caracter Weight-Loss Contract
09.07.10
So apparently the Lakers have a new way to motivate rookie forward Derrick Caracter to stay in shape, “keep your weight down, and we’ll pay you.”
According to a report on ProBasketballTalk.com,
Caracter has a $473,000 contract this year with $250,000 guaranteed. If Caracter weighs 275 pounds or less on Sept. 10, the contract becomes fully guaranteed.
There is a future for Caracter in “Laker Land,” especially with the team letting both DJ Mbenga and Josh Powell go this off season. If Caracter can keep himself in shape, there is some playing time to be had. And it seems the Lakers are willing to reward him financially for doing so.
This writer knows that for $177k, he’d surely keep himself under 275 pounds. Of course it would take two of him to equal that weight, but I digress.
Maybe the Lakers should have thought about employing this when Shaq still wore purple and gold.
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