Lakers are having a LAugh

Jim Buss has invented time travel. Well almost …

Watching the LA Lakers this season you’d swear it was 2005 all over again.

The Lakers are scaling back financially, after a successful hat-trick of Finals appearances peters out to a disappointing season. Coach Phil Jackson ‘retires’ from coaching and the Triangle offense is dropped like a hot rock and most of the key players that made championships possible have been shown through the departure gate at LAX. In fact all traces of the Jackson era are being swiftly buried.

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Ange Postecoglou

Ange Postecoglou was unveiled this week as the new coach of the Melbourne Victory FC, confirming the sports longest and worst kept secret. The move for the two time A-League championship winner from Brisbane Roar to Melbourne Victory has been heralded in some quarters as a landmark moment in Aussie roundball’s journey back from the precipice of sporting extinction.

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