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Lakers. We'll be alright once Russ gets back. Lakers, OTOH, are fcked.
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 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?
Lakers. We'll be alright once Russ gets back. Lakers, OTOH, are f
whats the thunders excuse?
The Achilles > The Beverley'd, no doubt
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.
We had a superstar go down, ing up everything we do. What's yalls?
We had a superstar go down, ing up everything we do. What's yalls?
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
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 on ice thought they were the same team.
LakersPERIOD... biggest failure in sports history, and now the franchise is in the hands of Jim "Dolan 2.0" Buss...
Lakers. We'll be alright once Russ gets back. Lakers, OTOH, are f
How awesome would it be if the NBA made a highlights DVD of the Lakers season with the Benny Hill theme song?
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 () 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 ed next year.
injury? really?We had a superstar go down, ing up everything we do. What's yalls?
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.
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..
Is this a serious question of a troll thread? im confused
...except Tim Duncan, who instantly turned his team into a championship contender as a rookie and won it the next year.
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.
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
Also they have 2 lottery picks in the draft, right? They ll be fine, much unlike the Lakers.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 (
Fakers on the other hand are just ed next year.
even at 100% lakers would not have made it past round 1
so OKC has a more terrible season by far
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)
Lakers had the worse year, but the Thunder ed up their future.
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