So just how serious are the Lakers?

I've been meaning to write this for weeks but never found the right outlet and just can't bear to keep it in the can any longer because it's too funny. But the other day, a bunch of us reporter types were chatting with Sasha Vujacic after practice, mostly about the Lakers season, what they could do, what the expectations are for the team. Then we got into how last season ended and Sasha immediately got serious, proclaiming pretty resolutely that he's taken a personal vow not to wear green, the Boston Celtics colors, this year.

Seriously, no green. Not a thread of it.

``I'm serious about it,'' he said, very seriously. ``No green.''