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Yet another shot at Kobe.
Amazingly, the Lakers have only managed to miss the playoffs 5 times in its 60+ years of existence.
Even more amazingly, only a select few players manage to miss the playoffs more than once with the Lakers when the Lakers miss the playoffs in the 74-75, then again the 75-76 season.
However, there has NEVER been a single player who managed to miss the playoffs with the Lakers in non-consecutive seasons.
It's amazing, but when you look at the Lakers' history, it's hardly a surprise. The franchise was able to ride the backs of dominant big men in the league one after another. From Mikan to Chamberlain to KAJ to Shaq to MVPau and almost to D12, the Lakers were able to get elite players to play at the most important position year after year.
A player like Gail Goodrich, who was the best Laker to miss more than one playoffs, are good players, but hardly franchise level, but once a player of KAJ's caliber came around, the Lakers were able to get back on track, and continue on its winning ways. He was merely in the transition phase from one great Laker team (72) to the next (80).
For a player to miss the playoffs in non-consecutive years as a Laker, he has to be destructive, he has to be so destructive that you can surround him with entire different sets of players, and the Lakers will still manage to finish as the franchise's bottom 10% team (5 out of 65, actually).
Do you guys think there will ever be a player so destructive that will cause the Lakers to miss two non-consecutive playoffs?
Yet another shot at Kobe.
Please Arnold, I know you are capable of thinking of nothing but Kobe, but this is a thread to celebrate the success and dominance of Lakers, which is most certainly your favourite team.
I understand that Kobe was, and in some ways still is, a very important part of the Lakers history, like Pippen to the Bulls and McHale to the Celtics, but can we stop talking about Kobe and focus on the Lakers as a franchise for once?
Amb should become a sportswriter, pure poetry.
Says there has NEVER been a Laker who missed consecutive playoffs.
Then says Gail Goodrich and Kareem missed consecutive playoffs while being Lakers.
Great thread
-Kobe 5, Tim 4
Good try but you may want to read again.
Jabbar is easily the most overrated player of all time. Couldn't win an NBA championship in the watered down ABA era or any at all without the Big O or Magic carrying his pansy ass.
Amb is better than this ...
I don't hate Kobe! Yeah right ...
I am not sure how being in awe with the lakers history would some how relate back to Kobe. Very disappointed with the laker fan base.
Good try but you may want to read again.
you sure he not a sportswriter already? And dude's very biased whenever it comes to the Lakers, just like most ghostwriters out there imho
Bwhahahaha. This is some hilarious . ^^^^
What is hilarious is when you actually look to history and the performance.
1973-74 was the last year that Robertson played for the Bucks. That team made it to the NBA finals and lost to the Celtics.
The following season (74-75) with Robertson gone the Bucks didn't even have a winning record. Jabbar was 26 and in his prime. He was traded to LA that offseason.
The 75-76 season again saw Jabbar unable to lead his team to a winning record. Although he got the enforcer his coward ass could hide behind in Kermit Washinton.
76-77 saw him get swept out of the second round.
77-78 saw him 'lead' his team to a 4th place finish and lose in the first round.
78-79 third place finish and second round exit.
79 they drafted Magic and he was able to win the finals with Jabbar hurt and unable to play. You know the game where he jumped the tip in place of the gimp Jabbar?
Now keep in mind that up until 76, the NBA was watered down allowing Jabbar to duck guys like Malone, Gilmore, Gervin, Irving, Dampier, Haywood, Hawkins, Lucas, Cunningham, Issel, and Thompson who were in the ABA. Even given that he struggled to win a single round much less the Pacific Division. He was in his prime and he could not get done.
Jabbar is cited as many as the GOAT. GOAT does better in the most watered down era of pro basketball when he is in his prime. Most Overrated of All Time MOAT.
Wilt Chamberlain. He's the most overrated of all-time. The average fan nowadays don't really know the failures of the past greats of the 50s/60s/70s. They tend to only know all the positives, compared to today we know everything about a player. The game just wasn't popular back then so people didn't care that much as they do now. In 76-77, the Lakers were the #1 seed in the NBA, and were swept in the WCF. Imagine if a modern great was swept while having the #1 seed in the playoffs. Kareem has some playoff failures, as does Larry Bird, he has lost 7 playoff series with HCA. Wilt Chamberlain was swept in the first round while having HCA to a sub .500 team, and only managed to win 1 le during his time playing with Jerry West.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Chamberlain was 33 when he went to LA and seeing how you seldom see him listed as above Jordan, Kareem, Russell and Magic, I fail to see how he is overrated.
He struggled that second year in Philadelphia certainly. He hated his coach and he was frustrated by the constant triple teams and hard fouls. That was one year when all the others he was struggling with the greatest team of all time for 7 games. He only came out on top once in that era but he was also the only one to do so. Those Russell Celtics won how many championships in a row?
Compare that with Jabbar who struggled and lost out to lesser teams when he did make it to the playoffs in the ABA era.
I suppose if bluster is the only solace you have then you just take what you can get.BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
KAJ
Tammy.
The gap between them is actually bigger, but you get the point son.
One can see what Duncan was able to do with a broken down DRob and a bunch of scrubs in 2003. That was with a full strength NBA. Similar cir stances meant a first round exit for Jabbar in the ABA era.KAJ
Tammy.
The gap between them is actually bigger, but you get the point son.
Tammy won because Snaq was 485lbs, unmotivated, and healing his injuries on company time. 2003*.
Cool story.
Kobe's time to shine, right?
Kobe shined since their first of three straight rings, truth be told. Say what you want about him, he empties out his clip every time and leaves it all on the floor. Every time.
Comparison: Wade dislocates his shoulder? He needed a wheelchair to get to the locker room. Kobe ruptures his Achilles? He gets up, walks under his own power to shoot his FTs. Then he walks to the locker room unassisted.
Kobe's old school - unlike these other so-called superstars that have no heart. All you farmers can hate on him if you want, but you gotta respect him.
Im amazed the average fan cant see that Kobe was not built around from day 1 the way MJ, Magic, and other greats wrere built around. The Lakers felt Shaq was older and more ready to build around and asked Kobe to take a back seat. While I doubt Kobe would have won 3 in a row with that nucleus, its obvious he would have won 1 or 2 by himself during that era and ultimately the other 2 with Gasol. I am glad Snaq helped him get that extra 1 if not for his help, but Kobe's biggest mistake in some ways was going to a franchise that had Shaq and wanted him to be option 1b
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