This will be interesting to see if Bronny James, an undersized third guard on a sub-.500 team who averaged less than five points, two assists and two rebounds per game is called up. It’s an insult to the game if a draft pick is wasted in an attempt to land his father, LeBron. I think a team feels that the freedom of action can be used to take the place on the bench if things don’t work out. This circus only hurts LeBron’s legacy. Bronny needs to go back to school and at least show that he can be a starter on a bad team.
Sophia Taylor
Sea View
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LeBron retires.
The Lakers named LeBron their new coach.
LeBron and the Lakers call up Bronny.
Microphone drop.
Linda Salzman
Rancho Palos Verdes
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I, for one, will gladly pay for LeBron’s plane ticket back to Cleveland. In my opinion, he was never a true Laker. So LeBron, do all of us true Lakers fans a favor and come home to Cleveland. Maybe the Cavaliers pick Bronny and make me smile.
GT OK
Rosemead
help Wanted
So the Lakers I still have a vacancy as a coach. But who would want this ridiculous game of musical chairs?
Firstly, you have a group of meddling and incompetent owners to deal with, who will likely let you down cheap because they like to waste/spend all their money on aging superstars. Then it’s either kowtow, accommodate and acquiesce to the whims and ego of that aging superstar or disappear before his tenure ends. Then there’s the flawed lineup: no, established backup center, a weak bench and no reliable third scoring option among the starting five. Finally, you can forget about developing young, promising talent because they will be gone before you know it.
Hmm… sounds like a “great” job opportunity.
Good luck in La La land!
Rick Solomon
Lake Balboa
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Their main focus is experience, but they will give “serious consideration” to someone who does not have coaching experience. by JJ Redick. That’s everything you need to know about the Lakers’ management incompetence.
Jack Wishard
Los Angeles
Losing the sparks
I wanted to take my daughter to an LA Sparks game. We love that Sparks reserves sections for $20 tickets, making it affordable for families and those on fixed incomes. I’m originally from Indiana, so we decided to watch the next Indiana Fever game with Caitlin Clark. Going to the Sparks website we saw that they increased the price of tickets from $20 to $125. So instead of spending $40, I would have to spend $250.
This is blatant price gouging and what makes it worse is that they have increased the price of affordable tickets by over 500%. My enthusiasm for going to a Sparks game has plummeted and we won’t be going.
Steve Shavel
Forest hills
Paying the UC regents’ tab
It’s good to meet the smart people at Cal (disguised as UC regents) resort to extortion due to another UC school having more resources in this world.
This is ridiculous.
I’m not a UCLA graduate and I’m not prejudiced. I graduated from Cal State University and have found the greed and extortion to be appalling since Cal sought another conference.
Brad Clevinger
Tehachapi
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I think what the Regents of the University of California are doing to UCLA is a great injustice. The Pac-12 is disintegrating due to the gross financial incompetence of its leadership, and UCLA got a good deal by joining the Big Ten. The regents want to punish them because they got a better deal than Cal with a compensatory payment, using a logic often referred to as socialism. The hypocrisy of their logic is evident in the Cal State system, where schools have a financial disparity across different conferences.
Alan Abajian
Alta Loma
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Instead of a $10 million payment, which reeks of extortion, what if the UC Regents simply ordered UCLA to keep Cal on its football and basketball schedules as a non-conference opponent every year?
Rhys Thomas
valley of the valley
Olympic caliber storyteller
It was a pleasure to find Bill Dwyre’s story about Olga and Harold Connolly. I’ve always enjoyed Dwyre’s take on the unusual and occasionally absurd stories that inhabit the world of sports.
Olga Connolly’s lifelong commitment to helping others and improving her community is a strong counterpoint to some contemporary attitudes and actions that appear in the daily press.
I hope Dwyre continues to offer readers his opinion on these topics.
Craig Hendricks
Lakewood
Goodbye to another arm
Continuing the tradition of Dodger pitchers blowing out their arms, Emmet Sheehan joined that list. Is it a rite of passage to blow your arm off now? If you do this multiple times, will that be even more of an achievement?
Maybe it’s time to teach pitchers how to actually throw and not just throw as hard as they can. Maybe it’s time to hire coaches who actually care about a pitcher’s health. Maybe going forward, today’s pitchers and coaches can look back 30, 40 or more years to know how to stay healthy, how to pitch a complete game and how to help their team win.
Geno Apicela
Placentia
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The Dodgers once again have the most talented team in baseball. What could go wrong? The stupid teasing dance every time it gets it right. It’s the worst thing ever. It’s tremendous bulletin board material for the opposition. Stop and desist immediately!
Paul Zimmelman
Marina del Rey
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