The Only team that can lose their best player and still win the ring..

[SteelerNation]

Is the Lakers. Imagine if Kobe goes down...the line up would be:

Fish
Artest
Odom
Gasol
Bynum

Imagine if the Spurs best player went down(Duncan...for those slow Spurs fans)

Parker
Manu
Jefferson
?
Bonner


hahahahahahah...say what?

Spurs wouldnt get past the 1st round against Oklahoma City.

[benefactor]

In other news...Steve McNair died this afternoon. Pretty sad. He was one of my favorite QB's

[ace3g]

hence why the league is still a big man driven team, you can always replace SG/SF, very hard to replace great PF/C.

[Shastafarian]

[z0sa]

A healthy big 3 of TP/Manu/RJ with a decent frontcout (say Sheed and Bonner) would take us to the WCF. We would lose to your precious Lakers or another contender though.

That said, a healthy spurs team +sheed would destroy a kobeless Lakers

[picnroll]

Is the Lakers. Imagine if Kobe goes down...the line up would be:

Fish
Artest
Odom
Gasol
Bynum

Imagine if the Spurs best player went down(Duncan...for those slow Spurs fans)

Parker
Manu
Jefferson
?
Bonner


hahahahahahah...say what?

Spurs wouldnt get past the 1st round against Oklahoma City.

This kind of leads into what I was thinking. Kobe and the Kobe butt sniffer can never lay claim to his being one of the greatest players ever. He's always had to be surrounded with excessive talent to get the job done. Contrast that with the real greats like MJ, Duncan, Hakeem, even Shaq.

[SteelerNation]

There isnt another team that can lose their best player and have a line up like the Lakers. Take Howard off the Magic...LeBron off the Cavs..Duncan of the Spurs...ect...

[benefactor]

hence why the league is still a big man driven team, you can always replace SG/SF, very hard to replace great PF/C.

Don't respond seriously to this ball. Anyone with the user name SteelerNation that is a Laker fan had to be fished from the shallow end of the gene pond.

[SteelerNation]

This kind of leads into what I was thinking. Kobe and the Kobe butt sniffer can never lay claim to be one of the greatest players ever. He's always had to be surrounded with excessive talent to get the job done. Contrast that with the real greats like MJ, Duncan, Hakeem, even Shaq.

Dont be jealous, kid.

[picnroll]

Dont be jealous, kid.

Not jealous. Just reality. The great ones could carry others. Kobe's proven he can't.

[Pucho!!!]

1st off , Secondly, who's to say Bynum will be healthy. Them knees is made of glass. Its sad to hear that McNair has been shot down. He tried all he could to beat the Rams that year.

[SteelerNation]

hence why the league is still a big man driven team, you can always replace SG/SF, very hard to replace great PF/C.

Uh-huh..is that why the last Finals MVP's have been Tony Parker, Paul Pierce, and Kobe Bryant?

[Libri]

In other news...Steve McNair died this afternoon. Pretty sad. He was one of my favorite QB's

Sad indeed.

[timvp]

How is this news? Kobe is the ultimately coattail rider?

Okay.

Thanks.

[SteelerNation]

1st off , Secondly, who's to say Bynum will be healthy. Them knees is made of glass

Same can be said for Manu.

[Spursmania]

Pure fail.

[Shastafarian]

Dont be jealous, kid.

Jealous of a troll feeling the need to start threads about how great his team is after they won a championship? They're good. We get it. Now go use that penis pump you so obviously need.

[kbrury]

yeah on knees that are 10 years older then Bynum's

[SteelerNation]

Pure fail.

Try again, kid...at least act like you have something to say. Youth is no excuse.

[rjv]

andrew bynum....i thought the lakers got rid of kwame brown.

[benefactor]

How is this news? Kobe is the ultimately coattail rider?

Okay.

Thanks.

Yeah...he kinda owned himself by starting this thread. The argument made in the OP suggest that another player could be plugged in and the Lakers could still win a le. So I guess Kobe is just not that good.

Nothing to see here.

[Pucho!!!]

Same can be said for Manu.

Manu's played quite a bit of basketball with minimal serious injuries. Bynum on the other hand...look at Yao Ming for his future

[timtonymanu]

Man some of these Laker fans have no life. And they say Spurs fans are obsessed with the Lakers.

[SteelerNation]

Manu's played quite a bit of basketball with minimal serious injuries. Bynum on the other hand...look at Yao Ming for his future

Yeah...Manu and Tim are the pictures of perfect health. lol

[Libri]

Manu's played quite a bit of basketball with minimal serious injuries. Bynum on the other hand...look at Yao Ming for his future

Plus, Bynum is a foul magnet and he is getting paid over $12 million.