Blazers vs. Lakers - Preview
Ezra Ace Caraeff | Friday, January 8, 2010 at 6:52AM 
Look at these adorable 'lil scamps. I just want to tussle their hair and pinch those cherubic rosy cheeks of theirs. Wait, why is one of them wearing a Josh Powell jersey? Nevermind, I take it all back.
Ah, Blazers versus Lakers, the biggest rivalry in the NBA that only one city (Portland) is actually aware of. The Blazers' brief playoff appearance last year was nothing compared to the thrill of knocking off the Lakers (twice) at the Rose Garden. For the Portland faithful, these were near-historic games, including the play where Trevor Ariza gets flagrant with Rudy Fernandez. Of course, eight straight loses in town did not prevent the Lakers from getting their shiny championship rings, but no Portland fan worth his/her Blazer pinwheel would ever forget those games.
In fact, the last time the Lakers picked up a win in the house that Paul Allen built was on February 23rd, 2005, and that was with a starting lineup of Chucky Atkins and Chris Mihm. The current Los Angeles starters are just a wee bit better. Bored with playing with all ten fingers, Kobe Bryant is only using nine digits these days, and despite a few struggles--and getting manhandled by the Clippers earlier this week--the Lakers boast an impressive 28-7 record. If you had hopes of seeing Marc and Pau in the same week, I hate to break the news that Gasolapalooza has been canceled. Pau is still out with hamstring injury. (His impersonator is also booked at a my nephew's bar mitzvah tonight, sorry.) Speaking of impersonating a NBA center, the Blazers' bigs will have their work cut out for them with Andrew Bynum, Ron Artest, and Khloe Kardashian's husband.
For Portland, what remains to be seen is if yesterday's Andre Miller verbal meltdown inspires the team, or if he becomes the new Darius Miles, or [insert almost any Blazers player from 2002-06 here], and is run out on a rail. Given their current condition, the Blazers really have no business toppling the Lakers tonight, yet when it comes to these two teams in the Rose Garden, almost anything is possible.
Reader Comments (14)
But hang on... the Lakers hate the Blazers too!! Don't they?!? I mean, they talk about the Blazers as their biggest rival ALL the time.... erm... don't they?
Well, WE'LL show them when we beat them this time! They've had this date circled on their calendar all... day.
Glad to see your site in the circle of Blazer love. I've been needing somewhere online to follow the Blazers! ;) But seriously, good to see PRS online.
beat LA!!!
Haha... Khloe
I expected to hate this blog because Blazer coverage is already superabundant. What more could a Blazer fan want than Quick, Smith, Golliver and then the occasional visit to one of the 47 other Blazer blogs?
I don't want to bookmark this site, but it turns out Ezra Caraeff is awesome. Damnit.
Beat LA!!!
Blazersedge can kiss my sass. I can't believe they banned me. I thought we had free speech in America.
All the Laker fans from Beaverton should be banned from home games.
congrats to le society on the ESPN bump, that's solid. we Laker fans love how agitated you are over the "rivalry" -- I want a W up there badly tonight but draw no correlation between it and another banner. I was truly bummed to see Oden go down and then Prz. Hopefully they will come back next year healthy. Anyway, good luck. There are at least 10 teams I loathe far more than POR, and I dig the city, so there's really nothing to see here, carry on.
Will this blog stick around? Will you unceremoniously ban me like certain other fan boy centric blogs did? Are you going to cater to crybaby, short man disease having, dweebs with easily hurt feelings?
Time will tell.
those damn dirty bloggers.........ban them............ban them all to hell!
all your queens of the banned need to get over your complexes.
If i have to keep reading your whinny posts about being wronged, I'm going to start a blog and ban you forever.
and superdave might want to check his height again......I'm just sayin'
Pfft. You read entirely too much into my words. I can't be wronged by anyone over the interwebs. I have a "real" life, and smites thrust upon me by dorks and losers don't particularly raise my dander.
Fabulous win against the Lakers. Very impressed with how Miller bounced back after the blow up. I'd am excited to see how Rudy and Batum get back in the mix.
BTW, having seen Pendergraph play, I really hope they keep giving him minutes. That dude is CRAZY, and has a little bit of enforcer thug in him. I LIKE it!
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