Sprewell Incident Gets Discussed

The Latrell Sprewell incident lived on Wednesday in the Laker locker room, where Robert Horry said he was surprised at the actions of his friend and former Alabama teammate and Del Harris said he really wasn’t all that surprised it happened to a fellow coach somewhere.

Horry has been in the eye of a player-coach storm before, having flipped a towel at Phoenix Coach Danny Ainge last season days before being traded to the Lakers. But that was nothing compared to the hurricane that came from Sprewell attacking his coach, P.J. Carlesimo.

“Mine came from me just not liking somebody,” Horry said. “I don’t know what his deal was.

“I was surprised. I remember a couple times when we got in squabbles with teams in college and he just sort of sat around and watched.”

Said Harris: “I wasn’t expecting it, but I’m not totally surprised that something like that would happen. It’s predicated on the pressure we all operate under these days. And then it gets magnified when you’re not winning.”

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Corie Blount, having played in pain for 3 1/2 weeks, first because of a sprained right ankle and then because of a sprained left ankle, said he is finally healthy. He celebrated Wednesday by making six of seven shots, highlighted by some highlight-reel dunks, and contributing 12 points and five rebounds to the victory in Denver. . . . Eddie Jones was named NBA player of the month for November after averaging 21.3 points and 2.40 steals and shooting 56.8% overall, tops among all guards, and 43.8% on three-pointers in the 15 games that actually includes opening night Oct. 31. He becomes the fifth Laker so honored, joining Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Cedric Ceballos and Shaquille O’Neal. . . . By going 12-2 in November, the Lakers recorded their first 12-win month since January of 1991.