Shannon Brown Starts in Lakers’ Exhibition Game

Due to Lamar Odom’s bruised leg and Pau Gaol’s strained hamstring, Lakers backup Shannon Brown got moved up to starter in the Lakers’ 91-87 exhibition win over the Charlotte Bobcats at Staples Center Saturday night (Oct. 17). Lakers Coach Phil Jackson put guard Brown in the backcourt with Derek Fisher while Kobe Bryant and Ron Artest started as forwards and Andrew Bynum started as center. Luke Walton was also out (sore back) and Jackson told the L.A. Times, “I’m concerned that we have some minor injuries at this point.”

In other NBA news, there is a new rule under which players are allowed to take two steps before they have to stop, pass or shoot, reports the L.A. Times. Said Jackson, “Well, I guess if you can’t call it, you just regulate it as a rule. But, it’s really hard to digest that as a person that’s been in basketball for as long as I’ve been in basketball, that we’re just going to give in to this new rule of doing it.” Jackson referred to Reggie Miller’s tendency to catch the ball and take two steps back to make a shot from the three-point line and claimed he’d always been in opposition of the “two-step walk,” also saying that he thinks Europe has been influencing the NBA.

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Posted in General on October 19, 2009

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