If you’re not an obsessive NBA fan, you might tune in to tonight’s basketball-playing contest between Your Dallas Mavericks and the Lakers of Los Angeles and wonder: who are these guys? Things have changed a fair amount since the Lake Show’s last championship in 2010. Here goes:
• Kobe Bryant is still sidelined with the ruptured Achilles tendon he suffered near the tail end of last season. But he’s still around, mainly to dress like a contract killer and glare at …
• Nick Young. All you need to know about the guy nicknamed (BY HIMSELF) Swaggy P is right here. Slight language alert when you click on that, but it’s worth it because when you click on that you see Swaggy P atop a camel. He will take any shot from anywhere and his give-a-dang hasn’t been restocked since probably sometime around 2002.
• The Lakers also currently employ a wanted serial killer, potato chip magnate Mr. Pringle, this guy, and Steve Nash.
