TAKING YET ANOTHER LOOK

Cleveland Cavaliers and another

time frame when our coach Byron
Scott used to coach that team.

Now he is our Lakers coach and we

played in Cleveland this past Sunday.

Win one? Nope, did not and in fact

lost by a bunch of points too. Kevin

Love, (who we had at one time been in

high hopes of getting for our team),

played against us on Sunday. Final 

score was: 120-105. Sad, these losses.

Kevin Love even scored a season

high of 32 points Our teams' player,

Jordan Clarkson also scored (his)

career-high of 20 points for us.

This, on a franchise record low for

our team with a 10th. straight road

loss. In fact, we have not won away

from Staples Center since Dec. 30.

Way back in 1957-58 and 1963-64

we also then lost 10 in a row too.

During the Lakers' last road trip., L.A.

Staples Center was being used for

the Grammy awards given out.

Speaking about or Laker team. coach

Byron Scott said to the papers:

"I thought our guys were soft. We 

allowed them to do whatever they

wanted. But you cannot play that way."

It is now noted in the obituaries'

that NBA has lost two men. Norm

Drucker, NBA referee, has died at

the age of 94. He once had to toss

Wilt Chamberlain from a game.

Norm worked NBA games from 1953-

'69. NBA Commissioner, Adam Silver,

said "Norm's even-handed approach

and commitment to fairness made him a

frequent choice to preside over some

of the biggest games in NBA history".

We have just recently had yet another

loss in finding out that former North

Carolina coach Dean Smith, at age 83

has died. He'd won two National  NBA

Championships and our President

Barrack Obama made a statement

saying" He pushed forward the

Civil rights movement as well as

integrating a restaurant and a

neighborhood in Chapel Hill."

He further stated" Smith showed us

something that I've seen again and 

again on the court, that basketball can

tell us a lot more about who you are

than a jump shot alone ever could"

And so, this day, on Monday, February

9th., 2015, we bid these fine gentlemen

goodbye with a farewell, R.I.P.

BABS WELLS