Damon Stoudamire on the Portland JailBlazers era: "We lost game 7 to eventual champions Lakers. Then we traded away Jermaine O'Neal and we didn't run it back for one more year. Both of those still bother me to this day."

Sam Presti If there is one thing I'm a little frustrated about besides not winning the final quarter of the season is I think we lost out on a lot of team development

De'Aaron Fox We lost Game 3 but that was the first time he Gregg Popovich walked into the locker room and was like Nah that's BS that's not how we play basketball and obviously he had some choice words for us

20 Years Ago Today LeBron psyches out Gilbert Arenas at the FT line Arenas misses both FT Damon Jones hits the GW and LeBron wins his first ever playoff series

Pelinka What did those teams Detroit San Antonio and OKC have to go through to build through the draft Multiple seasons of losses and that is just not part of our infrastructure here As much as some of us might want it to be that way its not the Lakers way

MPJ admits to checking out after not being selected as an All-Star I regret that once I didnt make that game I let my foot off the gas I wasnt in the weight room as much I wasnt preparing as much MPJ shot just 256 from 3 after the All-Star reserves were announced

LeBron James postgame conference after the Los Angeles Lakers got swept by the Oklahoma City Thunder tonight - 51126