Friday Firings: Lakers Practices, Wizzards Unis, Jeff Francoeur

After a 15-hour hiatus thanks to a Google fail, there's lots of firing to be done. Let's just get down to it.

If Bynum wants to win, he'd better practice.

Fire the Lakers Bad Practices - The Lakers are searching for scapegoats after their 4-0 loss to the Mavericks, and they're pointing fingers at, well, themselves. Glass-kneed Andrew Bynum said that the team didn't take practice seriously because Kobe Bryant was too banged up to join in throughout much of the season, which led to the postseason meltdown. As Allen Iverson once said, "we're talkin' 'bout practice!" But practice matters, and it's pathetic that a bunch of guys getting paid millions of dollars couldn't bother to turn up the intensity without big brother Kobe to keep them in line. Sure, practice can be tedious but it's too bad. The Lakers need to do a mini rebuild and find some more guys who actually care about winning.

Fire the Wizards New Uniforms - The Wizards recently unveiled a new look that looks a lot like their old look, when they were known as the Bullets. New owner Ted Leonsis (who also owns the Capitals) is really good at coming up with new jerseys for his teams, but he's not so good at actually putting together teams that win. This new look is retro cool, but why look to the past? The Wizards need to focus on rookie John Wall and building toward the future, not looking back to the 1970s, even if that is the last time the franchise mattered. When your team goes 3-38 on the road as the Wiz did in 2010-2011, your wardrobe should be low on your list of concerns.

Fire Jeff Francoeur's Sympathy for David Wright - Royals OF Jeff Francoeur, a one-time, part-time player for the Mets, said recently that the Mets should re-configure Citi Field because "poor David hits the ball to right-center so well and there it's an out." It's true that Wright struggled to hit homers in 2009 with just 10 after he'd hit 33 the year before, but he rebounded last year with 29. Maybe Francoeur is just bitter that things didn't work out so well for him in New York. Or Atlanta. Now that he's off to a nice start in 2011, he needs to just focus on doing his job rather than whining about "poor" David Wright and the Mets.