ESPN – The Los Angeles Lakers have never been known as a team that takes offensive charges. They are trying to change that. Last series, Phil Jackson called his big men “thin-chested” as a way of goading them into standing strong and taking a hit, and the team has been offering financial incentive — $50 per charge. “To motivate us in a way to take charges and getting away with it,” explained Sasha Vujacic. The charge-taking competition, however, has yet to involve Ron Artest, who said he learned from growing up on the New York playgrounds, that when you take a charge, fall and then call an offensive foul, well, bad things — like serious bodily harm — can happen. “I don’t even know how to take a charge,” he said. “To get the charge you have to fall. I’d rather not fall.

The Lakers have to pay their players to take charges? Ron Artest doesn’t like falling down? BAHAHAHA! Oh man this is going to be easier than I thought. Hey LA you ain’t in Phoenix anymore. Welcome to the East Coast. Welcome to hard nosed basketball. Now prepare to get anally raped (no pun intended but totally intended)