All Ball: Lakers revolving door still spinning
by Paul Teetor The more things change in Laker Land, the more they stay the same. After two years of complete chaos and total ineptitude on and off the court, the Lakers finally did something smart at the trade deadline this week: they got rid of selfish, surly, petulant Russell Westbrook, the hometown hero who turned out to be a heel. The final chapter in his nightmarish Laker tenure came Tuesday night against Oklahoma City, the same night Lebron James set the NBA scoring record. Near the end of the second quarter, Coach Darvin Ham subbed Westbrook out and Westbrook lingered on the court long past the time he should have gone to the bench. You didn’t need a dictionary to read his body language: I’m sick of this. Why is everybody always picking on me? During halftime in the locker room Westbrook verbally challenged Ham, a 6-foot-8 former power forward who carved out a 10-year NBA career by refusing to back down from anybody. The two men nearly came to blows before cooler heads intervened – just the kind of distraction they didn’t need on LeBron’s big night. Within 48 hours Westbrook had been shipped off to the NBAs’ version of Siberia – the Utah Jazz. And that was just their first…
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