The Los Angeles Lakers, largely at the behest of general manager Mitch Kupchak, have rebuffed trade inquiries from at least two teams for Pau Gasol, according to sources with knowledge of the Lakers’ thinking.
Dec 062012
Dec 052012
Shhh. Hush, Lakers. Not a word. The more they talk lately, the less sincere and solutions-oriented they sound.
Their justifications for firing Mike Brown and hiring Mike D’Antoni aren’t holding up. Their insistence that the return of Steve Nash will solve their losing ways doesn’t fit their post-game assessments of what’s going wrong. In short, they are not a team of their words.
General manager Mitch Kupchak said that one of the reasons the Lakers opted for D’Antoni instead of Phil Jackson was because D’Antoni “plays the way we see this team playing and our personnel executing, the guys that we have on this team.
Nov 182012
The Los Angeles Lakers have hired Dan D’Antoni to serve as an assistant coach, it was announced today by Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak.
Nov 132012
(Reuters) – The controversial decision by the Los Angeles Lakers to appoint Mike D’Antoni as new head coach over 11-time NBA championship winner and fan favorite Phil Jackson ultimately hinged on playing style, the team said on Tuesday. Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak told reporters that no agreement was reached with Jackson about his possible return to the franchise where he won five NBA titles and that D’Antoni’s offense-minded approach was viewed as the best way forward. …
Nov 132012
Nov 13 (Reuters) – The controversial decision by the Los Angeles Lakers to appoint Mike D’Antoni as new head coach over 11-time NBA championship winner and fan favourite Phil Jackson ultimately hinged on playing style, the team said on Tuesday. Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak told reporters that no agreement was reached with Jackson about his possible return to the franchise where he won five NBA titles and that D’Antoni’s offense-minded approach was viewed as the best way forward. …
Nov 132012
Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said the decision to hire Mike D’Antoni instead of Phil Jackson didn’t come down to money, demands over personnel control or travel restrictions. It came down to basketball.
Nov 092012
(Reuters) – Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike Brown has been fired after a 1-4 start to the season, the National Basketball Association (NBA) team said on Friday. Assistant coach Bernie Bickerstaff will take over as interim head coach for Friday’s game against the Golden State Warriors and a search for a new head coach will begin immediately, general manager Mitch Kupchak said. “This was a difficult and painful decision to make,” Kupchak said in a statement posted on the team’s website. …
Oct 292012
We sat down with Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak to discuss where the roster stands heading into the regular season.
Aug 142012
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If Dwight Howard’s a Laker, the thinking goes, somebody must be blamed. Why not David Stern?
Dwight Howard is a Laker, and that’s prompting strong reactions.
In Los Angeles, Steve Nash is grinning. Mitch Kupchak, meanwhile, crosses his fingers that Howard will sign for the long-term. (And, a subset of Laker fans are considering deleting those tweets from last Spring, about how Andrew Bynum is better than D12).
In Orlando they’re reminding everybody about the system, and how bad the Thunder were a few years back.
Aug 102012
It’s hard taking over for a legend, but that’s what Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak did to do when Jerry West left the club over a decade ago. Kupchak has been under scrutiny from both the fans and his own players ever since.