Lakers Quotes

Yeah. I just looked at the schedule, and that first week or two is pretty tough. Weve got Detroit, Portland, the Lakers that first week, then we got Orlando and the Spurs after that. We want to come out with a bang and do some things this year, but that first part of the schedule is tough. Were gonna have to be focused. - Russell Westbrook

Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden. - Jason Kidd

When he came to the Lakers, Bob McAdoo told me how much the game meant, how it changed everything, how it opened up the world for black kids in the South. I guess I never really thought of it that way, that we were such a big part of history. - Pat Riley

What I said about Pistons fans during halftime was a joke, nothing more. If I offended anyone, I'm sorry. Clearly, over the past 10 years, we in L.A. have taken a commanding lead in post-game riots. If the Lakers win, I plan to overturn my own car. - Jimmy Kimmel

We've always had a hard time defending him because he's a skill guy -- not only as a low-post scorer, but he's a good passer and he shoots it very well from 15-17 feet. And with the loss of Aaron Williams and Alonzo Mourning [because of the Vince Carter trade], we thought we needed some size. He helped Detroit, especially against the Lakers in the finals. - Lawrence Frank

We're very pleased to have Phil return to the Lakers as our head coach... His record speaks for itself and his success in this sport is unparalleled. Quite simply, Phil is the best coach in the business and probably the greatest coach of all time. - Jerry Buss

We're a rhythm team. If we're not playing to a certain rhythm, a certain beat, a certain pace, then we have to make adjustments and I think tonight we let the Lakers dictate, dictate, dictate and then we got down and then we tried to force the tempo. - Baron Davis

We needed a win, and I think any time you beat the Lakers it's a big win. It was nice to play well in front of our fans. It wasn't a sloppy game. Tonight I think we were the aggressors. - Nate McMillan

We lost the game in the second quarter. It's so hard to beat the Lakers here when you get down by 20 points. We can't play like this. - Andrei Kirilenko

We had to get this game behind us for a lot of reasons. We hadn't played well this year against Lakers, and Kobe's been averaging 50 points on us. We didn't want that to happen again. - Avery Johnson