Lakers rookie draft pick Andrew Goudelock curled off a screen with the clock winding down and his side trailing by two points in one of several scrimmages Tuesday with the team's other two rookies and 17 other NBA free agents.

Goudelock caught the basketball, rose up and shot, and then watched as his three-pointer settled into the net for the win as time expired.

He smiled and did several high-fives and chest-bumps with his teammates. It wasn't a bad way for Goudelock, and fellow rookies Darius Morris and Ater Majok, to be introduced to the Lakers' brass on hand Tuesday — new Coach Mike Brown and General Manager Mitch Kupchak.

"I was happy I made" the shot, Goudelock said, smiling.

His next goal is to make the team.

Goudelock, a 6-foot-3 combo guard, was drafted from College of Charleston with the 46th overall pick in the second round by the Lakers in Thursday's NBA draft.

Morris, a 6-4 point guard who played for Windward High in Los Angeles before going to the University of Michigan, was taken with the 41st pick.

Majok was taken with the 58th pick.

Listed at 6-foot-10, Majok, from Sudan, abruptly left the University of Connecticut in September. He averaged 2.3 points and three rebounds in 26 games with the Huskies in the 2009-10 season before leaving to play professionally in Turkey and Australia last winter.

All three of the Lakers rookies are unsigned because of the uncertainty of the NBA collective bargaining agreement that is set to expire Friday.

Morris, Goudelock and Majok worked out during a two-day, double-session mini-camp with several former NBA free agents hoping to be invited back to the Lakers' training camp, whenever the next season starts.

"I'm going to keep working hard and do the best I can," Morris said. "I still believe that I can find a way to work my way on this team."

The Lakers are looking to get younger and more athletic in the backcourt. Because of that, Goudelock is hopeful.

"This was my best workout and I think it was a good fit," he said. "I just want to take advantage of the opportunity."

Also, the Lakers probably will announce this week they have hired assistant coaches John Kuester, Chuck Person and Quin Snyder, according to an NBA executive not authorized to speak publicly on the subject.

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"So long for a while, that's all our songs for a while....

That's how a TV show called "Your Hit Parade" signed off in the 1950s, when kids gathered around their TVs on Saturday nights to see which songs made its top 10, with someone named Snooky Lanson — I'm not making this up — doing Elvis Presley numbers, backed by the Lucky Strike Orchestra.

It signed off for good in 1959 with Snooky's version of "Hound Dog" often cited among the reasons.

Of course, the NBA will soon sign off for a while too, or so much for professional basketball as we know it.

Last week's labor talks with their new proposals, softened demands, reports of progress, etc., were just for show, setting up their court case when the players and owners start suing each other, which won't be long.

The lockout is as it always was, and will be up to midnight Friday, when it starts, a lock.

After that, nobody knows what will happen, not even Commissioner David Stern, orchestrator of orchestrators, if no longer unchallenged lord of all he surveys, caught between his angry owners and his outraged players.

If this sound and fury signifies something, I've thought all along it wasn't as dire as it looked, or a major hype.

By the way, did you notice the NFL owners' dire situation turned into a total hype?

On Day 103 on the NFL lockout, it now is a hopeful model as its owners and players close in on a deal.

Of course, this was a vanity lockout for NFL owners, with the average team making $33 million last season, according to Forbes Magazine.

The NBA has real issues, which include the owners' revenue sharing, or lack thereof, as well as player costs.

So this should take at least 103 days, with the season openers around Day 120.

In the meantime, here are some terms that will come in handy.

Decertify: What the National Basketball Players Assn. is likely to do after it's locked out, as the NFL players did.

Antitrust suit: What the players will file, as NFL players did.

Appeal: What the NBA would then file, as NFL owners did, when the players' temporary injunction was lifted.

Face-saving settlement: What NFL owners are now down to, after starting so imperiously that Carolina owner Jerry Richardson could ask Peyton Manning:

"Do I need to help you read a revenue chart, son?"

Whose town is it anyway?

Times staff writer Chris Dufresne ranks Los Angeles' most popular sports franchises:

1. Lakers; Like Elvis when he was on top . . . just don't start making dumb movies or get drafted.

2. Angels: Update on shameless PR move naming team L.A. Angels of Anaheim: It worked.

3. Dodgers: Costello: "What's the guy's name on first?" Abbott: "No. What is on second."

4. USC football: Math department "vehemently" appeals ranking to NCAA Committee on Fractions.

5. Chivas Guadalajara: If you think this is too high you may know football, but not futbol.

6. Clippers: Scuba instructor warns Blake Griffin that rapid ascension could lead to the rim bends.

7. UCLA basketball: First promotional event at temporary "home" Sports Arena: "Rat Trap Night."

8. UCLA football: The town is here for the taking if only the Bruins would take it to someone.

9. Oakland Raiders: Will stay on list for as long as Jim Hill thinks they never actually left.

10. Kings: Latest first-round playoff exit electrifies a 50-watt bulb somewhere in El Segundo.

11. Ducks: Raquel Welch says 2007 Stanley Cup seems like "one million years BC" ago.

12. USC basketball: Coach needs to raise one bar in town — but stay out of all the rest.

13. Galaxy: Probably the best MLS team in town (grading on curve).

14. Chivas USA: Players insist they could score more goals if allowed to use their hands.

15. UC Irvine baseball: Gorgeous community with man-made lakes and park featuring "no pepper" signs.

16. Sparks: Candace Parker and Bryant (Joe, not Kobe) worth the $8 price of admission.

17. Mater Dei: Several players have already requested transfers to other ranking systems.

18. Sacramento Kings: Loading up on "Anaheim Royals" foam fingers in case you change your minds.

19. St. Louis Rams: Won NFL titles in Cleveland, L.A. and St. Louis but skipped right over (then out of) Anaheim.

20. Rancho Cucamonga Quakes: Clean, safe, alternative way to enjoy quality Dodgers-affiliated baseball.

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Los Angeles is a tough town to lose. It's a huge, sprawling metropolis of aqueducts, actors, avatars, beaches, mountains and freeways.

Somehow, incredibly, like a wallet or a set of car keys, the Dodgers lost it.

Seriously, it was in their hip pocket a minute ago.

"Where was the last place you had it?" is always the dumb question people ask.

The maddening fact is the Dodgers had L.A. but now they don't — and you can't blame it on the McCourts.

It's a Lakers town now and all other contestants are playing for parting gifts. The drop-off factor from No. 1 to No. 2 is roughly Mt. Everest to Holmby Hills.

How the Dodgers lost L.A. is the child's-play, sticks-and-balls version of Winston Churchill's 1938 "While England Slept."

While the Dodgers dithered the Lakers rode, like Slim Pickens on his A-bomb in "Dr. Strangelove," into an Internet explosion.

Lakers flags long ago replaced Union 76 balls on our car antennas.

As much as the Lakers earned their status, this never should have happened — it's like the Broncos misplacing Denver.

Los Angeles was — and never should have ceased being — Dodger Town.

"It will be again," says Fred Claire, the team's former general manager. "I don't know how. The roots are so deep in the community. . . . It's just my gut feeling. I just know the foundation of all of that. It's not as if it will be gone forever."

The Dodgers' reign lasted, unchecked, for about 40 years. The headstone would read 1958-1998.

The Rams owned L.A. first because they got here first, relocating in 1946 from Cleveland.

People forget the grip on us the Rams once had — fans later would call it a "choke" hold. They won the 1951 NFL title and alternated two Hall of Fame quarterbacks, Bob Waterfield and Norm Van Brocklin.

Waterfield was married to movie star Jane Russell.

The players were nicknamed "Crazy Legs," "Night Train" and "Deacon Dan." In 1957, the Rams became the first team in football history to attract more than one million fans. A home game against San Francisco that year drew 102,368.

The next year, though, the Dodgers arrived from Brooklyn, moved into the Rams' Coliseum digs, and won the town over — seemingly forever.

"The Dodgers were really L.A.'s team," Jim Murray, The Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, recounted in his autobiography. "In the beginning, it was the Rams. They were the first big league operation to embrace Los Angeles. And their advent coincided with the spurt of interest in pro football, which, for a time, seemed about to put baseball in the supporting role category

So much for Pau Gasol getting traded to Minnesota.

Anybody who believed that rumor should trade themselves to the Mojave Desert without water for a few days.

Draft day came and went without any Lakers deals, but there's still time for change before the league disappears like a mirage next Thursday when its labor contract expires.

Who will be on the Lakers' roster when next season begins? Here are one man's estimates.

Players from 2010-11 roster (chances of returning next season):

Kobe Bryant (100%)

The franchise player isn't going anywhere for too many reasons to list, starting with his attraction among Lakers fans (merchandise + tickets = $$$) and ending with a hefty contract that pays him $83.5 million over the next three seasons, way more than any other player in the league.

Pau Gasol (95%)

Despite his playoff swoon against Dallas, Gasol remains one of the top 20 players in the NBA. He won't exactly be jettisoned for Silly Putty and two second-round picks in 2020.

Lamar Odom (60%)

If the Lakers trade somebody, it's almost surely Odom, mainly because of an attractive contract that pays him a bargain-like $8.9 million next season and a partially guaranteed $8.2 million in 2012-13.

Andrew Bynum (85%)

He's averaged only 51 regular-season games the last four seasons but remains firmly in the good graces of team exec Jim Buss. He won't be dealt unless someone huge (Dwight) is (Howard) involved (Orlando). But, trust me, Orlando is well aware of Bynum's injury history.

Derek Fisher (85%)

Now that Phil Jackson is gone, there's no guarantee Fisher, who turns 37 in August, keeps his starting job. Not a lot of teams will clamor for his services, with two more years and $6.8 million left on his contract, so he can divert his full attention to representing the players' union in negotiations with owners.

Ron Artest (99.9%)

Artest and his new name have three more years and a weighty $21.5 million remaining on his contract. He'll be tough to move after his worst pro season, so Lakers fans will have to give Peace a chance.

Shannon Brown (40%)

Even if he accepts a player option of $2.4 million instead of testing free agency, Brown might leave the Lakers the same way he arrived — as a throw-in for a trade.

A week before NBA owners are expected to lock out players in a labor dispute, there was a tranquil setting Thursday night at the Lakers training facility in El Segundo as the NBA draft took place.

Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak said he wasn't going to blow up the team despite suggestions by a "prominent member of the media [Magic Johnson]" that he should. And Kupchak said his guess is that guard Shannon Brown will opt out of his contract and become a free agent.

The Lakers used their first two second-round draft picks in Thursday night's NBA draft to select guards, taking Michigan's 6-foot-4 point guard Darius Morris with the 41st pick and College of Charleston's 6-2 combination guard Andrew Goudelock with the 46th pick.

"We think and we're hoping that they both can make the team," Kupchak said. "We're hoping at the least one of the players can make the team."

The Lakers finished their draft by taking forward Chukwudiebere Maduabum of Nigeria with the 56th pick and center Ater Majok with the 58th pick.

Rights to Maduabum, listed at 6-9, later were traded to the Denver Nuggets for a future second-round pick.

Majok, listed at 6-10, is from Sudan and left the University of Connecticut last September. He averaged 2.3 points and three rebounds in 26 games with the Huskies before leaving after one season to play professionally in Turkey and Australia.

Kupchak said the team will try to develop one of those players overseas.

The Lakers drafted for help in the backcourt because of the uncertainty regarding Brown.

"My guess is — and it's only a guess — is that he will decide not to extend one more year," Kupchak said.

Brown has to let the Lakers know of his decision by next Thursday. Brown is scheduled to make $2.374 million next season if he decides to stay with the team.

Late Thursday, Brown said he hadn't made a decision yet.

"I'm still trying to figure it out," Brown said. "I'm trying to make sure it's the right decision for me and my family. It's not an easy thing."

As for rumors about trades, "I think we've been pretty consistent over the last month or so that it's not our goal right now to look to break up this team," Kupchak said. "Certainly we'll explore opportunities, but we're not out there dialing 27, 28 teams and saying, 'What would you do for these players?' That's not what we're doing."

Morris, who is from Los Angeles and attended Windward High, averaged 15 points, 4.0 rebounds and 6.7 assists during his sophomore season at Michigan.

"According to my agent, [the Lakers] didn't think I was going to be around" to be picked 41st, said Morris, who led the Big Ten in assists. "But that's how things fall and I'm very excited to capitalize on the opportunity."

Goudelock averaged 23.7 points on 45.5% shooting as a senior last season.

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Now, Lamar and Khloe in Philadelphia?

Oh, that will go over well with the cast and crew!

Fortunately, at least for their reality TV show … if not the Lakers who would have loved Andre Iguodala … Lamar Odom didn't really go to Philadelphia.

With none of the NBA's other, quote, reported discussions leading to anything, the draft Thursday turned into a massive yawner.

No, Steve Nash didn't go to Minnesota for the No. 2 pick.

No, the San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker didn't go anywhere.

And no, neither Andrew Bynum, Pau Gasol nor Odom went to Minnesota for that No. 2 pick.

In a departure from most of the other reports, the Lakers actually offered Odom for the No. 2 pick and Minnesota considered it, briefly.

KHLOE AND LAMAR IN MINNESOTA?

No beach?

No hotties in bikinis?

Imagine the first show as Khloe breaks the news to the family, and Bruce asks how she can do that to her mom, who just got over Kim's engagement to some NBA player in … New Jersey?

Or not.

Actually, Lamar's reaction to hearing he could go to Minnesota was to vow to retire first.

Not coincidentally, the 76ers apparently didn't think Lamar would welcome a trade there, either.

Actually, there's a question of how much anyone wanted Odom, as opposed to agent Rob Pelinka trying to get his clients, Iguodala and Derrick Williams, to the Lakers.

In a rare show of exasperation after a week of seeing his players' names in headlines, Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak zinged an unnamed agent, whose identity was obvious.

"A lot of the stuff you read the last three or four days was agent-driven," said Kupchak.

"A lot of times agents these days think the way to consummate a trade is to suggest publicly ideas that they come up with and I think that's part of the problem, as well."

Just when you thought you had seen it all regarding Ron Artest ...

The Lakers forward filed paperwork Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court to legally change his name to Metta World Peace.

"Metta" is a Buddhist term. One definition for the word is "a strong wish for the welfare and happiness of others."

NBA players need to file papers with the league to change their jersey number, but no such action is necessary for name changes, according to a league official. It is up to the Lakers, and Artest, to determine if his new name will appear on the back of his jersey.

Other NBA players who changed their names include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (from Lew Alcindor), Bison Dele (from Brian Williams) and Mahmud Abdul-Raff (from Chris Jackson).

For a long time, Artest carried the reputation as an instigator in the infamous "Palace Brawl" in 2004, but he seemed to complete a personality turnaround in recent years.

Last December, he raffled off his 2010 Lakers championship ring, raising about $600,000 for various mental-health service providers. Two months ago, he received the NBA's citizenship award for the 2010-11 season, as determined by pro basketball media members.

Artest, 31, is due back in court for a name-change hearing on August 26, according to court records.

The attorney who filed the proposal, Jill Rubin, said she was handling the change of Ronald William Artest Jr.'s name but had no additional information as to why Artest was doing so.

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And then the NBA draft hit the fan. …

After weeks of being written off as a low-wattage, no-superstar affair, the usual cloud of intrigue descended as the minutes ticked off before the draft Thursday.

Aside from previously disclosed reports, or erroneously reported, or laughable reports came this one:

The San Antonio Spurs tried to trade into the top 10 to draft Klay Thompson, Mychal's son and newly crowned prodigy.

The Washington State junior was totally off the radar until burning up the pre-draft circuit, trying out for teams all the way up to Cleveland at No. 4.

Due in New York on Tuesday for pre-draft festivities, Klay detoured to San Antonio to meet Coach Gregg Popovich and General Manager R.C. Buford.

However, with the Spurs also asking teams to take forward Richard Jefferson with three years worth $30 million on his contract, no one has stepped up yet.

The Lakers tried to trade up even higher, to Minnesota at No. 2, where they would have taken Derrick Williams.

The Lakers offered Lamar Odom, not Pau Gasol, as in some reports.

Minnesota said no, ending the dialogue several days ago.

Somehow Andrew Bynum's name got in trade reports.

If Minnesota GM David Kahn mentioned it, Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak probably told him, "Could you say that again? There's something wrong with this phone."

Then there was Phoenix's reported maybe-they-won't-notice offer, Steve Nash for the No. 2 pick, based on Minnesota's interest last season.

Apparently, the Suns hoped that might be enough to persuade the Timberwolves to trade the second pick for a 37-year-old point guard, with three (Ricky Rubio, Luke Ridnour, Jonny Flynn) on Minnesota's roster.

The draft is still hours away. Imagine the possibilities.

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