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NBA Commentary: A Time To Talk About The Lakers

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There’s eight days left in the regular season and I’m giving in and talking about the Los Angeles Lakers. I’ve resisted using this space’s NBA commentary to talk about the Lakers, because they managed to eclipse Tim Tebow as the most overrated topic in sports. But with five games left, they’re locked in a final battle for the #8 seed in the Western Conference playoffs, and let’s face it—they’d make a formidable challenger to anyone in a playoff series, regardless of how ugly it’s looked this season. So let’s diagnose why this team underachieved, and what its chances are at playoff redemption.

Daily Sports: A Night The NHL Deserves Center Stage

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For all the Championship Week hype going on, I would call Tuesday a pretty quiet night in sports. There are three small-conference championship games with no implications for anyone on the NCAA Tournament bubble. The power conferences start slowly with some preliminary round games in the Big East and Mountain West—if South Florida-Seton Hall or DePaul-Rutgers turn you on, then go to ESPNU for the doubleheader that starts at 7 PM ET. But what tonight’s daily sports docket really adds up to is an evening where hockey deserves to be on center stage.

Daily Sports: NBA Friday, Big East Saturday & Big Ten Sunday Ahead.

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This is the last Friday night the NBA will have its usual showcase spot on the nation’s daily sports docket, at least for a few weeks. Next week there will be power conference tournaments rolling, and the March Madness takes over. But the league will go into exile with a couple good games tonight. NBA Friday leads TheSportsNotebook’s daily sports discussion, and then we look ahead into the weekend where each day might be dubbed Big East Saturday and Big Ten Sunday.

The Stars In The NBA Highlight The TV Sports Week

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The stars come out in the NBA on Sunday night in Houston, when TNT televises the NBA All-Star Game. And the two biggest stars go head-to-head on Thursday night, when LeBron & Miami take on Durant’s OkC in an 8 PM ET tip on TNT that helps send the league into the All-Star break. Otherwise, this week in sports is about big college basketball games, as the race for conference titles heats up and teams on the fringe of the NCAA Tournament know the margin for error is tightening. Let’s walk through the week day-by-day and line up the best games to watch in TV sports…

The Week In Sports On TV

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And then suddenly there was nothing to do—at least so says the fan whose primary interest is football. For the first time since late August, we have a week with no football on the agenda, making this the lead-in to our sports lives through February, save one brief interlude to watch the Harbaugh Family in New Orleans. But never fear, there’s plenty of good action in college basketball, and some worthwhile games in the NBA & NHL. Let’s run through the week in sports that lies ahead…

The Week In Sports: NFL, Bowls & Buckets

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The city of New York opens the week in sports tonight, with the Jets playing Tennessee in Monday Night Football (8:30 PM ET, ESPN) and the Big Apple comes close to closing it as well, when it’s Giants-Ravens (4:25 PM ET, Fox) in the featured late afternoon game next Sunday. The Jets are unexpectedly in the playoff picture if they win tonight and the Giants are unexpectedly in danger of falling out, having lost control of their destiny in the NFC East and struggling to hold on for a wild-card.