Who is a legitimate threat to the Lakers next season?

[DJ Mbenga]

What?

by legit pf i dont mean he isnt good but i mean he isnt a duncan or back to basket player. he faces up and takes jumpers.

[Chieflion]

by legit pf i dont mean he isnt good but i mean he isnt a duncan or back to basket player. he faces up and takes jumpers.

I think Oden will do that post up, back to the basket thing next season.

[BadOdor]

I think Oden will do that post up, back to the basket thing next season.

Oden will be out 2 months into the season.

That we know.

These are things we know.

[bostonguy]

I think Oden will do that post up, back to the basket thing next season.

I am sure he will but when will he get injured again? The guy is injury prone and is coming off another season ending injury. He can't ever stay healthy. It has been like this for sometime. This Blazers team is so much like the Rockets. A team that had potential but couldnt stay healthy. The words healthy and Blazers is pretty much an oxymoron.

[Chieflion]

I don't feel like making assumptions about Oden or any other player's injury conditions or what not. But I hope he will be able to play the entire season next year. The league needs to have better big men in the league again.

[tlongII]

Oden is no more injury prone than Bynum. In fact I would argue his chances of playing a full season are greater than Bynum's.

[Venti Quattro]

plus no other city in the league hates the Lakers as much as we do...

Boston says hi

[tlongII]

Boston says hi

Boston isn't even close.

[Muser]

Ask me after free agency has finished.

[Ashy Larry]

Boston isn't even close.

I walked around Portland with a Laker shirt on and nothing happened.


I walked around Worchester with a Laker shirt on and almost got into three fights.


These are probably the two cities in the league where Laker Nation is really not present when the teams are good.

[tlongII]

I walked around Portland with a Laker shirt on and nothing happened.


I walked around Worchester with a Laker shirt on and almost got into three fights.


These are probably the two cities in the league where Laker Nation is really not present when the teams are good.

Depends on the time of year and where you were at. I lived in Boston for a year and I can guarantee there is not as much hate for the Lakers there as there is here. However, we're probably nicer people than Bostonians in general too.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

People from Portland are pretty nice tbh.....the first job I ever had, I worked with this dude from Portland who I can tell was involved in some bad at some point in time but he was a really nice guy who seemed to be trying to clean his life up......it turns out he was using an alias to work in Phoenix and was wanted on 3 counts of 1st degree murder in Portland, but he was still a nice guy.

[Ashy Larry]

Depends on the time of year and where you were at. I lived in Boston for a year and I can guarantee there is not as much hate for the Lakers there as there is here. However, we're probably nicer people than Bostonians in general too.

actually the people in Portland were nicer. Yes, there's a rivalry but it's respectable. In Worchester and Boston, not all but many of those s really take this serious.

And I was all over Portland, downtown, University Park, Beaverton and man the air is so damn fresh.