Hattie Winston Offers Advice On Improving The Los Angeles Lakers Roster: Love Of The Game

In our weekly "Love Of The Game" series, HuffPost Black Voices talks sports with a person of note. This week we caught up with renown television and Broadway actress Hattie Winston, who opened up on what her favorite team, the Los Angeles Lakers, should do in order to return to the NBA Finals.

"What is this trade nonsense that's going on? I'm very upset with my Lakers. I'm very upset that Lamar [Odom] is gone. And I agree with what Kobe [Bryant] said. He said that Lamar played his heart out last season, and that is absolutely true. And then they're going to trade him for the 'possibility' of a first round draft pick? Come on, who is up there in that front office? It's really crazy, but in terms of what they should do...they need to really take a serious look at who we have on the team. They need to get rid of Bynum, & Metta World Peace. Honey, please take the 'Peace' and go spread it somewhere else!"

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Comments

[ProfessorBIGWUN]

05:51 AM on 01/18/2012

-but it's always OK when the Lakers get someone else's choice player and build THEIR roster!!!

[onlyThis]

01:05 PM on 01/17/2012

Lost all respect for the Lakers when they beat on the smallest guy on the Mavericks team last playoffs.

[PTerrys]

02:43 PM on 01/18/2012

Seriously that was the best sports breakdown ever. Watching the Lakers' series against the Mavs was like watching the making of a future HBO Sports documentary. You could tell when Kobe first got fined what was going to happen... cue the ominous music. "And then things took a turn for the worst."

[Asa Smith]

01:21 AM on 01/17/2012

Can we get rid of Hattie winston

[Tblack]

02:26 PM on 01/19/2012

And her opportunities to tell us what she thinks? Who the H#ll asked her?

[mr whiteffolks]

03:58 AM on 01/16/2012

The Lakers should have kept Trevor Ariza ! Not that it would help because Kobe is getting on in age so there's no real cure when father time chimes in except rebuilding with youth !

[LoveMeSomeMe12]

07:31 PM on 01/15/2012

Amen Sister Hattie,

Ron Artest, (No I'm not calling him MWP, and y'all really need to stop calling "BABY BRON BRON" "KING JAMES, JESUS IS THE ONE AND ONLY KING") needs (to)and should be traded and if they need to trade someone else it should be Matthew Barnes and bring Phillip Jackson back. "LET GO KOBE"!

[ZenSufi]

10:29 PM on 01/15/2012

King James has his own authorized translation of the Bible.