LOS ANGELES LAKERS: BIG PROBLEMS In the City of Angels cut the rope We start this chapter in the pr

LOS ANGELES LAKERS: BIG PROBLEMS In the City of Angels cut the rope We start this chapter in the present. This year misses Lakers playoffs for the first time since 2005, for the second time the last 20 years and for only the sixth time in team history. Have you told the Lakers, you have said superstars. You want names? Earvin "Magic" Johnson (who unfortunately cut the rope had set his career after he was diagnosed HIV positive), "Big Game James" Worthy, Wilt Chamberlain (who reportedly had 20,000 different bed partners in his life and even made 100 points alone in a match) cut the rope Kareem Abdul Jabbar (a name that sounds much cooler than Lev Alchindor. Kareem had a shot that was called for the sky hook he used again and again to great success), Jerry West (who was so good that he was called "The Logo "Gail Goodrich. Elgin Baylor (who could cans with the best of them) and especially Kobe Bryant and Shaquile O Neal (All except Kobe got their shirt numbers withdrawn). Lakers cut the rope are a dynasty whether you like them or not. They have been in 31 NBA Finals (lost 15 of them) and is one of only two teams (Boston Celtics being the other) that has dozens of titles. Lakers was formed in 1947, but it was only in 1960 that the team found its current home in LA. The name Lakers do with that team comes from Minneapolis in the state of Minnesota (state's nickname is "The land of 10,000 lakes", so go figure). Lakers were a power in the 1980s when the team won five titles in the decade. Lakers rout may be caused by many things. It's easy to point to the time Phil Jackson (the man who also guided Chicago to each and every one of their six titles), stopped his work at the club. The successor Mike Brown made it ok the first year where smoke out in the second round of the playoffs to Oklahoma City went into the final. But the 2012-2013 season was horrible. First brought to the aging Steve Nash in Phoenix in exchange for the Lakers' 2013 and 2015 first-round cut the rope draft picks in 2013 and 2014 second-round draft picks and $ 3 million. Then downloaded to the star Dwight cut the rope Howard in Orlando in a trade involving two other teams: Los Angeles got Howard, Earl Clark and Chris Duhon from Orlando, Orlando got Aaron Affalo and Al Harrington from Denver, Moe Harkless and Nikola Vučević from Philly and Josh McRoberts and Christian Eyenga cut the rope from Los Angeles. Are you still with? For Philly got Jason Richardson from Orlando and Andrew Bynum from Los Angeles and Denver got Andre Iguodala from Philly (Iggy plays today for Golden State). Besides it got Orlando also some draft picks. Well. But now the Lakers all Kobe, Dwight and Steve Nash on the same team that already had large Pau Gasol. Four large profiles. It should then be able to go well right?
NOPE There was friction between Kobe and Howard almost from day one. Something that brought back unpleasant memories from when Kobe and Shaq were on the same team in the final 90s and 00s start. Shaq came like Howard cut the rope to LA from Orlando and, like Howard, he had his problems with Kobe. Who was the culprit in Kobe vs Howard's hard to say. What there is to say is that it just got worse. Mike Brown got kicked after 5 games and just one victory. The following 10 matches was 50/50 in wins and losses before current coach Mike D'Antoni came to. D'Antoni had helped to make Phoenix a fairly team in the middle 00s and had, among other things picked Steve Nash to the club as this smoke in profits in Dallas. (More on that in Phoenix chapter). Team's longtime owner Jerry Buss died of cancer in February 2013. And because the basic game ended the Lakers 45-37, their worst record since 2007. As salt in the wound team lost all mutual meetings with bysbørnene from LA Clippers, something that last happened in the season 74 -75 where the Clippers had home in Buffalo on the east coast! cut the rope Team was via a victory over Houston cut the rope last day of performance, secured the seventh seed in the Western Conference. Unfortunately, cut the rope injuries took their stint on the team. Worst hit was Kobe and Nash. Nash missed the last eight games of the regular season with hip and hamstring problems and Kobe got quite a cropper in the penultimate base game game against Golden State when he tore akillescenen above. The playoff was soon over when they were swept by the San Antonio cut the rope Spurs 4-0 in matches. Howard had had enough of playing on a losing team and left the sinking ship and went to Houston. As rapper Ice Cube said to a concert. "We dont want sky, Eff Dwight Coward" What the Lakers do from here is everyone's guess. But they may well have made it difficult cut the rope for them. Recently by Nash, who perfectly well know that he is at an end, has announced that he will come back one more year. Explanation? He is set to earn $ 10 million in his last contract year
SACRAMENTO KINGS: BOOOOOOGIIEEEEE! Sacramento is one of the really old team in the NBA. Formed in 1923 and played until 1957 in Rochester, cut the rope New York. Then we went to Cincinnati (57-72) and Kansas City (72-85) before fan