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That ain't a real rivalry since they own your ass 9 to 3. It's only a rivalry inside your tiny minds.
Now before you grey spurfans come in here and shout the Lakers suck and the Bulls are fodders, read the thread le. Now to my point.
I think that it would be very good for the league. Big market vs Big market teams duking it out with big-market stars headlining the story. The media would find a gold mine of stories and side-stories to e up this potential finals series. It would rake in tv ratings, sponsorships and ticket sales. Just the thing that the NBA would probably need to save it from a lock-out.
If the Lakers win it, Phil Jackson would head the story line because he would win his 12th and last ring at the expense of the first team that he won his first ring with. Kobe would be in there too because he would tie the player that has been most compared to him in the championship rings department. It will fuel a lot of debate, controversy, haters, lovers, etc.
And if the Bulls win it all, wouldn't it be fitting that Jordan's team deny Kobe, the most compared and arguably the closest player to him, of a 6th ring to tie him? That would be such a nice story, although it would suck for me because Phil's swan song is incomplete and Kobe won't complete the quest for Phil.
That ain't a real rivalry since they own your ass 9 to 3. It's only a rivalry inside your tiny minds.
Boston sold their soul when they traded Perkins. They traded toughness for gimmicky offense. Ainge ed them over. I would love for them to play the Celtics in the Finals (for many reasons), LA would destroy them.
Don't need to worry about that DD, Miami and Chicago will make sure that happens.
It's still a rivalry, just from sheer amount of big games they've played against each other. True, Boston historically owns us, but if BOS-LAL ain't a rivalry then neither is Red Sox-Yankees, cause the Yankees own that .
Miami is the only team that scares me out of the East, especially since we gave up the HCA in the last week of the season. I'm sticking to my guns...MIA and OKC are the only teams that could beat a healthy Laker team this year--and since OKC would have to go through a tough series to reach the WCF, I'm liking our chances more and more against them too.
And that's precisely why it would blow. Every time two big market teams with superstars play in the Finals, the media turns everything into a soap-opera like spectacle that Vince McMahon would applaud.
I don't need the media constantly trying to force feed me the idea that Kobe will catch or surpass Jordan if he ties him in rings. Kobe's barely a top ten all-time player, much less the greatest of all time. Believe it or not, the sport does suffer with this kind of sound bite sports journalism. Granted, Luva and like-minded idiots tune in and eat this up, but ultimately, it turns sports into something a sideshow.
Lol. I was trying to bait Luva with that one. I agree with Killakobe that a rivalry begins when both teams have won an important series against each other.
I'm sure it would be a good series but it's not happening.
If Stern wants a Bulls-Lakers series, he's gonna have it
A team that continually goes to the finals with help is good for basketball? Good for LA, not basketball.
Awesome new avatar, bro.
keyword: arguably. You're arguing what I said, so i'm still right
Mid recycling ...I guess the Lakers and Spurs are not a rivalry either by your criteria ...
ty logic.
There's a potential one now. Don't you mean an actual one?
Thank you
Stern wants to fine people. He would love a Magic, Lakers series. Think of the money he could make.
Kobe, Artest, Phil
You are right, there is potential....
Stern wants a new genre to hang the NBA hat on. Look for OKC and Chicago to get some unsual calls during crunch time.
Stern would his pants if it's the Lakers and Bulls in the Finals. He would probably kill himself if it was OKC and the Magic. It would be interesting to see the Bulls and Lakers. Kobe has never won a championship when his team did not have HCA in the Finals.
I would think Spurs, Mavs, Thunder fans, etc... could really give a flying about how a Lakers-Bulls would be good for the league.
Fine assessment, db.
You got that beat by Forever.
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