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[7even]

Finally somebody with the balls to call out whack ass Phil Jackson:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2009/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=PERDiem-090515

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

Finally somebody with the balls to call out whack ass Phil Jackson:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2009/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=PERDiem-090515

Phils about to get his 10th ring...


Hollinger's an idiot.

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Finally somebody with the balls to call out whack ass Phil Jackson:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2009/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=PERDiem-090515

Phils about to get his 10th ring...


Hollinger's an idiot.

That's what we said in 2003, 2004, and 2008.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

Finally somebody with the balls to call out whack ass Phil Jackson:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2009/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=PERDiem-090515

Phils about to get his 10th ring...


Hollinger's an idiot.

That's what we said in 2003, 2004, and 2008.

we didn't make the Finals in '03...third times the charm.

[LooN3y]

"The only person that got a chance against Kobe Bryant is the person you talk to when you get on your damn knees at night"



- Charles Barkley

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

"The only person that got a chance against Kobe Bryant is the person you talk to when you get on your damn knees at night"



- Charles Barkley

 

[Hatesrats™]

A belated 
Finals baby!!!

[Fatdodger]

Its over we took it after today the magic wont be coming back

[Hatesrats™]

Let's get it.. 
Wrap it up tonight Lake Show!

I'm worried 'bout L.A. tho people act a fucken fool when The Lakers win.
stay off the road, They Shake ya ride out here.

[Teddy Roosevelt]

No parade if the Lakers win the Finals? Wtf?

No Parade For the Lakers?
By Henry Abbott | TrueHoop

If the Lakers win the NBA championship on Sunday, some city officials are speculating about a parade on Figueroa Street on Tuesday.

However, the police and cleanup crews for such an event cost something around a million dollars, and it's not at all clear the city -- which has recently forced employees to take paycuts, and is facing dire shortfalls -- has the cash.

City Councilwoman Jan Perry was on the dais with David Stern a week ago, when the NBA announced the 2011 All-Star Game would be in Los Angeles. Now she's quoted by David Zahniser and Phil Willon in the L.A. Times with the bad news:

"We can't afford to cover the costs," Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry, whose district includes Staples Center, said this afternoon. "How could we make a decision about people's jobs and then sponsor the parade?"

She suggests the Lakers or the NBA ought to pick up the tab.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dime-090614

[Hatesrats™]

No parade if the Lakers win the Finals? Wtf?

No Parade For the Lakers?
By Henry Abbott | TrueHoop

If the Lakers win the NBA championship on Sunday, some city officials are speculating about a parade on Figueroa Street on Tuesday.

However, the police and cleanup crews for such an event cost something around a million dollars, and it's not at all clear the city -- which has recently forced employees to take paycuts, and is facing dire shortfalls -- has the cash.

City Councilwoman Jan Perry was on the dais with David Stern a week ago, when the NBA announced the 2011 All-Star Game would be in Los Angeles. Now she's quoted by David Zahniser and Phil Willon in the L.A. Times with the bad news:

"We can't afford to cover the costs," Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry, whose district includes Staples Center, said this afternoon. "How could we make a decision about people's jobs and then sponsor the parade?"

She suggests the Lakers or the NBA ought to pick up the tab.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dime-090614

Sad shit! real-life is a mutha!

[Hatesrats™]

Parade going down on WED.
Will end at the LA Colosseum.

Go Lakers!!! 2009 NBA Champions.
be there!

[Teddy Roosevelt]

L.A. mayor: Lakers will get a parade
Sunday, June 14, 2009
City News Service

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was long on civic pride but short on specifics Sunday, as he said the L.A. Lakers would have a victory parade for the NBA championship title.

But the mayor rushed away from reporters before he could be asked specific questions on how a city that faces a possible $200 million in forced budget cuts can afford even part of paying police and crowd control costs for the civic celebration of what appears to be an inevitable Lakers NBA championship.

"The idea that we wouldn't have a parade is untenable, (and) should we be fortunate enough to win I expect that we'll have a parade," Villaraigosa said today.

"I also expect that we'll figure out how we fund it, working with the private sector, to help us do that," he said.

The mayor made his comments to a gaggle of reporters as he marched through West Hollywood in its annual Gay Pride Day parade. His handlers rushed him away before journalists could ask how the city, which is facing bloody budget cuts, could afford to spend anything on crowd control costs that could far exceed $1 million.

The Lakers are up 3-1 over the Orlando Magic going into today's game. They could win the NBA title tonight in Florida, or by winning either of the next two games of the best-of-seven-game series in Los Angeles next week.

The team has met with Los Angeles police and other city officials to plan a parade that could be as early as midday Wednesday, should the L.A. team capture the NBA title for its tenth time. The parade would start at Staples Center and go down 2-1/2 miles of Figueroa Street to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, a city council member said Friday.

The firm that operates Staples on behalf of the team has rented the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for a post-parade rally, police and Coliseum officials said Friday. Details of the event in the 94,000-seat facility are being held until they can be announced on Lakers broadcast-rights stations after a championship is clinched.

The parade route and Coliseum rally would be a departure from years past, when shorter victory parades started at City Hall and snaked through downtown to Staples Center. Those events attracted upwards of one million attendees each and cost the city more than $1.1 million apiece.

The parade route down Figueroa Street is much longer, and would bring a parade attracting hundreds of thousands of boisterous people through some pricey car dealerships, street-worn strip malls, and the USC campus perimeter.

Some of those businesses suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages in celebrations earlier this decade, when vandalism and arson broke out after Lakers championships games. During the 2002 parade, two television news trucks and some city paramedic units were wrecked by parade fans dancing atop them on a street next to the Staples rally.

Team players wrote out checks to pay for new fire trucks.

Police and team officials met last Thursday to talk about crowd control measures along the proposed parade route, including renting enough cement or metal railings to line 2-1/2 miles of Figueroa Street. Who would pay for that, as well as police, paramedic, and cleanup crews, remains unclear after Villaraigosa's comments.

"We can't afford to cover the costs," Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry told the Los Angeles Times Friday. "How could we make a decision about people's jobs and then sponsor the parade?" she asked.

Later she told a TV station that she would be open to the city fronting the parade costs if it were reimbursed later by private parties.

Subsidies for local street fairs, 10K runs and other special events would be chopped under an emergency city budget plan that gets a final vote from the city council next week. But even if passed, the plan would not go into effect until after the end of the championship series, according to The Times.

The city's budget deficit is forcing the city council to negotiate layoffs with labor unions and to consider unpaid days off every other Friday for city employees. "City employees have been asked by their employers to take a massive pay cut," said Barbara Maynard, spokeswoman for the Coalition of L.A. City Unions, representing about 22,000 workers.

"We do not believe it is appropriate in this economic climate for taxpayers to be funding a parade," Maynard told The Times Friday.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=6864588

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Lakers parade to proceed -- with conditions [Updated]
11:59 AM | June 16, 2009

Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti said this morning that it appeared that enough private donations had been pledged to cover the city's costs for Wednesday’s parade to celebrate the Lakers’ NBA championship.

Several council members had voiced opposition to spending any tax dollars on the parade because of the city’s financial crisis, which is expected to lead to widespread layoffs and worker furloughs starting in July.

Council members Jan Perry and Bernard C. Parks today filed a motion authorizing the Lakers’ parade, but only with the understanding that “event sponsors will reimburse the City for all fees and costs associated with this event," including police protection and other staffing necessary for city street closures.

The motion is expected to come before the council for consideration in the next few hours. It instructs city financial officers to account for all city expenses incurred during the parade and to confirm the city has been reimbursed.

[Updated at 2:15 p.m.: The motion was introduced without discussion at the City Council meeting but will not be voted upon until next Tuesday.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, appearing at a news conference in El Segundo, said private donors had pledged approximately $850,000 to pay for police protection and other city services for the parade. That is enough to eliminate the need to spend tax dollars on the celebration, he said.

Donors include: Casey and Laura Wasserman; Jerry and Margie Perenchio: Eli and Edythe Broad; Haim and Cheryl Saban; and the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, a San Bernardino County tribe that owns a popular casino in Highland. The amount donated by each was not disclosed.]

The parade is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Staples Center and procede south on Figueroa Street  to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The following streets will be closed from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Figueroa from Chick Hearn Court to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and Chick Hearn Court from Figueroa Street to Georgia Street.

Over the weekend, city officials urged the owners of the Lakers and Anschutz Entertainment Group, which owns Staples Center, to pick up the tab for the celebration. The two already pledged to pay more than $1 million in parade production costs.

Sources told The Times that two media executives and several other people stepped forward to help the city pay for its share the parade celebrating the Lakers’ 15th championship.

Approximately $450,000 has been donated by Casey and Laura Wasserman, Jerry and Margie Perenchio and others, and other major contributions were pledged on Monday. Casey Wasserman is the grandson of former Universal Pictures Chairman Lew Wasserman. Jerry Perenchio is the former chairman of Univision Communications.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s office estimated the city’s costs could approach $900,000, but council members said those expenses could be much less because the parade route is shorter than in past years.

“I think they are very close. My last report was about an hour ago,’’ said Councilwoman Jan Perry, whose district includes the Staples Center.

AEG President Tim Leiweke has taken the most active role in raising private donations to ensure that no city tax dollars are needed to fund to parade, city officials said.

“I have to give a lot recognition to Tim’s efforts,’’ Perry said. “The Lakers and AEG have always been very responsive to community needs. ... I’m not at all surprised that they have stepped up to be good civic partners.’’

Villaraigosa, along with Laker Derek Fisher and LAPD Chief William J. Bratton, will hold a news conference this afternoon to announce the parade financing.

-- Phil Willon and Richard Winton

[thisoneguy360]

Everyone's talking about how the front office is gonna have to make the decision between keeping Lamar or Trevor....I thought the Vlade trade was made to help this situation? What do you guys see happening