Worst Year: Lakers or OKC?

[Thebesteva]

Obviously the EPIC fail award goes to the Lakers. But as far as how detrimental this season is, I have to say losing Westbrook and losing this early in the playoffs after looking like a solid Finals contender has to be devastating on this teams psyche. It was obvious the Lakers were shit by December, but I really thought OKC would be back in the Finals this year.

Which franchise will have a harder time recovering from this?

[thunderup]

Lakers. We'll be alright once Russ gets back. Lakers, OTOH, are f:lolcked.

[whitemamba]

whats the thunders excuse?

[capek]

The Achilles > The Beverley'd, no doubt

[Technique]

Lakers for obvious reasons, but I won't go there.

Durant as a player and as a man will grow from a series like this. Every player must suffer before he reaches the ultimate achievement. LeBron, for as much as people hate him, has paid his dues. That's why I was pulling for the Heat over the Thunder last year. Westbrook and Durant have not faced enough obstacles to obtain the ultimate reward in basketball. This year, they matured as players and as a team.

In the long run I think this season had a silver lining for OKC.

[thunderup]

whats the thunders excuse?
We had a superstar go down, fucking up everything we do. What's yalls? :downspin:

[Thebesteva]

We had a superstar go down, fucking up everything we do. What's yalls? :downspin:

http://www.celticstown.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mike-dantoni-500x281.jpg

[HI-FI]

This year it's definitely LA. Go back and look at the semen cloud on here when they got Nash and Howard, they thought they were a new dynasty and Kobe would finally overtake MJ:cry

Their season has been the biggest trainwreck I can remember, with basketball gods putting a button on it with Achilles.

OKC was gutted before the season began because of the Harden trade. Only their fans who were high as shit on ice thought they were the same team.

[thunderup]

http://www.celticstown.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mike-dantoni-500x281.jpg
:lol

[Clipper Nation]

LakersPERIOD... biggest failure in sports history, and now the franchise is in the hands of Jim "Dolan 2.0" Buss...

[100%duncan]

Lakers. We'll be alright once Russ gets back. Lakers, OTOH, are f:lolcked.

[Thebesteva]

:lol

How awesome would it be if the NBA made a highlights DVD of the Lakers season with the Benny Hill theme song?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5sQL7q_IOI

[Splits]

The OKC loss is probably a blessing in disguise because Porkins was exposed as worthless and he will be moved or amnestied. With Abaka making $12.5m next year instead of $2.5m (:lmao) the $12m coming off the books for Martin is a wash. But if they don't have to pay Porker his $8.5m then they can nab a nice free agent and develop Lamb/Jones as their 6th man.

Fakers on the other hand are just fucked next year.

[whitemamba]

We had a superstar go down, fucking up everything we do. What's yalls? :downspin:

injury? really?

[KaiRMD1]

LA, the Thunder will be fine and they will probably go on an absolute tear next year.........unless another injury happens to Durant during the playoffs for which there will be 500 posts concluding "The Thunder are better off without Durant" but all in all, the Thunder will be fine, the Lakers still don't know who is on their roster next year.

[HarlemHeat37]

OKC's hype was cut in half following the Harden trade, tbh..they were still expected to win the West, but they weren't the overwhelming favorites like Miami..

The Lakers are the most disappointing team in NBA history..

[UNCLE-DREW]

Is this a serious question of a troll thread? im confused :lmao

[Arcadian]

Every player must suffer before he reaches the ultimate achievement.

...except Tim Duncan, who instantly turned his team into a championship contender as a rookie and won it the next year. :lol

[Johnny RIngo]

Thunder had the best SRS in the league during the reg season. Their gripe about injuries were legitimate. If Westbrook were healthy, they beat the Grizz in five or six games and probably make the Finals.

LA had a $100+ million roster, never looked good at any point in time, and needed lots of help just to sneak into that 7th seed. I don't see how these situations are comparable. OKC traded Harden, sure. Bad mistake but that was a financial decision outside of the control of the front office. Kupchak has all the money in the world and he still couldn't build a competent team. That's even worse.

[Latarian Milton]

lakers were a patient with cancer, you realized that they were done from the start of season but they could still survive to the 1st round playoffs. while OKC looked more like a victim of the Timothy McVeigh bombing who suffered fatal injuries and died in hospital after a couple of weeks, their fate changed all of a sudden. it was indeed a great "year" for OKC since they finished atop the west in the regular season imho, they just had bad luck for a few weeks something

[rayjayjohnson]

:lol Fags in LA for sure. If Westbrook hadn't gotten hurt we all know OKC would of ran through the west with ease.

:lol this entire forum wouldn't shut up about how shit westbrick is, now he's out he's the reason the thunder didn't steamroll. Fag.

[InK]

The OKC loss is probably a blessing in disguise because Porkins was exposed as worthless and he will be moved or amnestied. With Abaka making $12.5m next year instead of $2.5m (:lmao) the $12m coming off the books for Martin is a wash. But if they don't have to pay Porker his $8.5m then they can nab a nice free agent and develop Lamb/Jones as their 6th man.

Fakers on the other hand are just fucked next year.

Also they have 2 lottery picks in the draft, right? They ll be fine, much unlike the Lakers.

[hater]

even at 100% lakers would not have made it past round 1

so OKC has a more terrible season by far

[racm]

Also they have 2 lottery picks in the draft, right? They ll be fine, much unlike the Lakers.

They only have the Raptors pick (which they should use on a useful big man, tbh).

Also, to answer the OP, it's definitely the Lakers.

Laker fans all over the world were bragging that they were championship contenders because they added a 3 time DPOY and a 2 time MVP (never mind that the former just got back surgery, the latter was living off the Suns medical staff, and Mike Brown was still coaching). Then everything went against their favor. 0-8 in preseason. Nash getting hurt in the second game of the season (and it showed quickly that his body missed Phoenix), Brown got fired (which was the biggest Hope Spot for the Lakers) which led to Jimbo and Kupcake making a big blunder signing D'Antoni to an old, shallow roster. The Lakers were <.500 for most of 2013, and it took the schedule and the refs to even get them into the playoffs... as a 7th seed, while losing Bryant to The Achilles. Below the Clippers (who swept them in the RS). Below the Warriors. Then they got swept in convincing fashion, with Howard being told to bend over by an Australian.

Oklahoma City, OTOH, was still a good favorite to come out of the West, and it showed. Best SRS in the league, blowing out teams at home handily. Trading James Harden for Kevin Martin didn't look bad in the regular season. First seed. 60 wins. And it just fell apart for them when Westbrook bumped into Beverley. At least the Thunderefs have a stellar regular season to fall back on (they're a bunch of Bonners as a team it seems, tbh)

[The Batman]

Lakers had the worse year, but the Thunder fucked up their future.

[Stabula]

No doubt Lakers seeing as they're the biggest failure in sports history but OKC was pretty bad too. Harden was picked to be traded instead of Ibaka (:lol) and Houston constantly gave them fits with or without the chimp. Then the chimp goes down like a bitch and Durant chokes the season away to Memphis. Scott Brooks and the OKC role players got exposed for the worthless pieces of shit they are. I don't see how OKC was favored to win the west, the Spurs at their best have a much higher ceiling than OKC without Harden.

[Mel_13]

Obviously the EPIC fail award goes to the Lakers. But as far as how detrimental this season is, I have to say losing Westbrook and losing this early in the playoffs after looking like a solid Finals contender has to be devastating on this teams psyche. It was obvious the Lakers were shit by December, but I really thought OKC would be back in the Finals this year.

Which franchise will have a harder time recovering from this?

To the question posed in the thread title: Lakers, without a doubt.

To the question highlighted above: Thunder. Small market teams operate with a very small margin for error. Presti traded his away before the season started.

[TampaDude]

This year it's definitely LA. Go back and look at the semen cloud on here when they got Nash and Howard, they thought they were a new dynasty and Kobe would finally overtake MJ:cry

Their season has been the biggest trainwreck I can remember, with basketball gods putting a button on it with Achilles.

OKC was gutted before the season began because of the Harden trade. Only their fans who were high as shit on ice thought they were the same team.

:lol