End of an era - Goodbye Lakers

[peskypesky]

lmao

[Splits]

Lakers win with no class and they lose with no class. Classless team for a classless city. I could not be happier seeing this organization getting bootstomped and swept out of the playoffs by the NBAs most choking organization. I hope severe misery on every Laker fan. Happy Mother's day, heads. DIAF

[Chomag]

Well I guess Spurstalk is going to be allot quieter around here now that a few of the Laker trolls jump off the bandwagon.

So..... are they Lakers now going get Randolph, Mayo. Allen, and Battier for just Steve Blake or something from their farm team for next season? Come on Stern! work that magic!!!!

[eric365]

Just gone on a Lakers board and it's not even funny.
I thought there would be some meltdown and crazy talk but it wasn't

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

That is me happily laughing my arse off at the end of the Fakers' run.

I think I hate them just a little more than the Mavs.

[timtonymanu]

I only wish we saw Kobe or Fisher cry again. But the sweep felt good.

[Calispursfan11]

To the few of you who have doubted this is the end for LA until yesterday, can you still say that after today's game.

[benefactor]

[spurtech09]

i just watched the mavs dismantle the lakers and i don't know whether to rejoice or cry. As much as i couldn't stand kobe all these years, his decline is sad as is the lakers' end since the lakers greatness went hand in hand with the spurs' greatness. The lakers' core has become way too old, fat and happy to compete with the mavs much less for a le.

Bye bye laker dynasty. You were a thorn in our side, but a familiar one, and sometimes unpleasant familiarity is better than the unknown.

i don't think its an end of an era for the lakers....lakers need a new pg and some shooters....there you go there back in the game..

[ChuckD]

i don't think its an end of an era for the lakers....lakers need a new pg and some shooters....there you go there back in the game..

They have no money to shop. They have no real assets or decent picks to trade. Their payroll is $90M and growing. The might be able to get one backup PG or one shooter for the MLE.

[Calispursfan11]

Wow, what a collapse today for the mighy Lakeshow. Laker fans must be jumping off buildings right now.

To that I say in the words of Adam Sandler's Thanksgiving song:

"Kobe bean kobe bean meatloaf sandwich!"

[JudynTX]

http://www.didthelakersgetswept.com/

[rwb]

I really wonder how the poor guys at ESPN are taking this. Must be devastating.

[Calispursfan11]

I know it is early, but it's hard to imagine the Lakers reaching the finals this year or making any significant improvement as long as Kobe remains the focus of the team. The fact that the Lakers and Spurs have both been so dominant for so many years was just how it was until a rapid and obvious drop off the last couple of years. Whether you liked or hated the Lakers, they were always there and you had to respect their coach, drive and technical basketball prowess. But everything that dominates has an end. We are seeing the beginning of it now for both the Lakers and the Spurs.

The years are passing, and no one, no matter how great is immune to the passage of time. However, I believe that the Spurs' attempts to rebuild on the fly might help to reverse the aging process and keep them in contention longer than the Lakers. We don't see the same from the Lakers this year after the Odom/Paul snafu. They appear to be totally out of sorts looking like a bunch of old guys and no name bench players. When M. World Peace and Steve Blake are your only serviceable bench players, you are not very deep.

Goodbye Lakers. We may very well join you in the dregs soon, but not yet. Not yet.

[DMC]

The Lakers are the most coddled team in the league. I cannot muster any sympathy for their brief respite from the Finals much like how I cannot muster sympathy for the Yankees or Fidel Castro.

[Giuseppe]

The Lakers are the most coddled team in the league. I cannot muster any sympathy for their brief respite from the Finals much like how I cannot muster sympathy for the Yankees or Fidel Castro.

Only P's & A's whine.

[Hooks]

Its clear stern has a new favorite in la, this means no more 24 4q fts nor calls favoring the lakers. The lakers will take on the clip shows former place as the tiest team in the la as they gradually decline. Rip lakers.

[Calispursfan11]

Its clear stern has a new favorite in la, this means no more 24 4q fts nor calls favoring the lakers. The lakers will take on the clip shows former place as the tiest team in the la as they gradually decline. Rip lakers.

I tend to think you have a great point here.

[xmas1997]

This is the one year I would prefer them and the Mavs to do well and the Spurs to do poorly due to this upcoming draft. In fact I wouldn't even mind if the Spurs ended up in the lottery this year especially since the season is practically half over anyway. I haven't missed much and they need to get lucky again with their pick before TD retires for good.

[DMC]

Only P's & A's whine.

Trendy fail

[itzsoweezee]

Time for LA to ship Kobe off to some lottery team. It won't ever happen though. Kobe comes before the team. His albatross of a contract is going to keep LA from contender status for years.

[therealtruth]

I think the Lakers were a much more dangerous team with Phil Jackson as the coach. Mike Brown is just not the same. Basically Phil > Pop > Mike.