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Michael Hinrich, AKA Michael H, has been a Lakers fan since his 5th grade basketball coach, who had played with Wilt Chamberlain at Kansas, turned him into a Wilt fan and Lakers fan when Wilt was traded to L.A.
Another expat from the LA Times Lakers Blog, where he met LakerTom and Jamie Sweet, Michael’s stream of consciousness writing style and savvy intelligence is refreshing and invites conversation and response.
As far as day jobs, Michael has been a councilor, truck washer, bank V.P., and semi-professional writer who just published his first novel. He currently works part-time designing greenhouse systems and just enjoying the good life in Hawaii.
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Speaking after the game, Jarred Vanderbilt spoke about the Luka Doncic ejection. Vanderbilt, who got a technical from the referees as well, believes there’s more to the story.
In fact, the referee refused to let Doncic plead his case, saying he would speak to anyone but the Slovenian. The Lakers star speculated that the referees had some personal issue with Doncic.
“The ref was just like, ‘I don’t want to talk. I will talk to anybody but Luka [Doncic].’ It seemed a little personal at that point. He was just advocating for me.”