Lakers: Henry Abbott: Were the Lakers ever really magic?

[HarlemHeat37]

https://www.truehoop.com/p/were-the-...r-really-magic

Great, great article on Jeannie Buss's incompetence and the Lakers being a historically overrated franchise..

[Mr. Body]

It's a franchise completely up its own ass. If not in Los Angeles, they'd be a backwater team, sure, but they did have great general management for a long time. You can't keep championships going without picking out great role-players and so on. That takes work. Five missed playoffs in sixty-five years and now six in a row. smdh

[Mugen]

Good article tbh. Abbott even threw in a nice little shot at that bridge troll Ramona.

Look, if you hate the Lakers, you've been spoiled beyond belief these last 7 years tbh. I honestly couldn't have scripted a better way to up that organization than what ended up happening in real life.

But, I need just one more bone from the great Buss family. Just one last piece of the puzzle to complete this Laker hater masterpiece....Hire Kirby.

[HarlemHeat37]

It's a franchise completely up its own ass. If not in Los Angeles, they'd be a backwater team, sure, but they did have great general management for a long time. You can't keep championships going without picking out great role-players and so on. That takes work. Five missed playoffs in sixty-five years and now six in a row. smdh

Is it a coincidence that they've been an embarrassment in the analytics era, though? They've been completely incompetent without the ability to just sign big names due to location..

Kareem demanded to go there, Magic was a no-brainer, Shaq signed there, Kobe demanded a trade to go there..that's virtually all their success right there

[Bynumite]

Lakers FO is a dumpster fire, no doubt but they're not the only ones to blame. OP may not agree with some of Lebron's moves but he's still firmly on his . He won't call out his boy for the piss poor way he handled this season and let his business interests get in the way of team success.

[Robz4000]

Lakers FO is a dumpster fire, no doubt but they're not the only ones to blame. OP may not agree with some of Lebron's moves but he's still firmly on his . He won't call out his boy for the piss poor way he handled this season and let his business interests get in the way of team success.

He never planned to have team success. Literally the only reason he went to LA was to further said business interests.

[LkrFan]

Lakers are a dumpster fire...missed the playoffs for the last 6 years...blah blah blah

Spurs have been this model franchise...in the playoffs for 21 straight years...blah blah blah

Yet you farmers keep making threads about...you guessed it...the Lakers

#RentFree

[Rummpd]

Lakers are a dumpster fire...missed the playoffs for the last 6 years...blah blah blah

Spurs have been this model franchise...in the playoffs for 21 straight years...blah blah blah

Yet you farmers keep making threads about...you guessed it...the Lakers

Got to love your loyalty and hanging around here. Lakers have so much financial resources and glamor they can turn it around but sure is fun to see them in such total disarray!

#RentFree

[baseline bum]

Good article tbh. Abbott even threw in a nice little shot at that bridge troll Ramona.

Look, if you hate the Lakers, you've been spoiled beyond belief these last 7 years tbh. I honestly couldn't have scripted a better way to up that organization than what ended up happening in real life.

But, I need just one more bone from the great Buss family. Just one last piece of the puzzle to complete this Laker hater masterpiece....Hire Kirby.

You gonna get robdiaz pissed talking bad about Big Mona

[LkrFan]

Got to love your loyalty and hanging around here. Lakers have so much financial resources and glamor they can turn it around but sure is fun to see them in such total disarray!

[Mr. Body]

Lakers are a dumpster fire...missed the playoffs for the last 6 years...blah blah blah

Spurs have been this model franchise...in the playoffs for 21 straight years...blah blah blah

Yet you farmers keep making threads about...you guessed it...the Lakers

#RentFree

The Spurs are so boringly competent, sometimes it's fun to watch a train wreck.

[R. DeMurre]

Lakers are a dumpster fire...missed the playoffs for the last 6 years...blah blah blah

Spurs have been this model franchise...in the playoffs for 21 straight years...blah blah blah

Yet you farmers keep making threads about...you guessed it...the Lakers

#RentFree

You're a Laker fan with 29,000+ posts on a website dedicated to the San Antonio Spurs.

That's the definition of #RentFree.

[Laker_1995]

You're a Laker fan with 29,000+ posts on a website dedicated to the San Antonio Spurs.

That's the definition of #RentFree.

Lmao damn

[FrostKing]

Have the LA Lakers ever won a Championship with lesser overall talent than opponents?

Juggernaut franchise but not the basketball soul of Boston

[LkrFan]

You're a Laker fan with 29,000+ posts on a website dedicated to the San Antonio Spurs.

That's the definition of #RentFree.

This is a LAKER Board son.

[LkrFan]

Have the LA Lakers ever won a Championship with lesser overall talent than opponents?

Juggernaut franchise but not the basketball soul of Boston

Buck Foston

[LkrFan]

The Spurs are so boringly competent, sometimes it's fun to watch a train wreck.

Preview of Dubs vs Spurs:

[R. DeMurre]

This is a LAKER Board son.

WWW.SPURSTALK.COM

[Mr. Body]

Preview of Dubs vs Spurs:

Interesting coming from a Lakers fan whose trashy young players are going yet another year without getting to compete at even a basic postseason level.

[Kurgan]

Great article. The author also makes a great point about LA sports writers being spineless cheerleaders. They essentially act as enthusiastic mouthpieces for the Lakers organization. It's like the complete opposite of NY where the journos are a little too eager to tear apart the Knicks ownership and players at every opportunity(although the criticism is mostly justified).

[Kurgan]

Preview of Dubs vs Spurs:

lol, thanks for the compliment. I don't think even most Spurs fans think we're making the conference finals.

[Clipper Nation]

It's obvious now that the real "magic" of the Lakers was Jack Kent Cooke, Jerry Buss and Jerry West. Now that none of them are in charge anymore, they've been a dumpster fire on and off the court.

[Mr. Body]

Great article. The author also makes a great point about LA sports writers being spineless cheerleaders. They essentially act as enthusiastic mouthpieces for the Lakers organization. It's like the complete opposite of NY where the journos are a little too eager to tear apart the Knicks ownership and players at every opportunity(although the criticism is mostly justified).

True, the LAL beat writers are pathetic.

[Killakobe81]

https://www.truehoop.com/p/were-the-...r-really-magic

Great, great article on Jeannie Buss's incompetence and the Lakers being a historically overrated franchise..

abbott but some truth in there

[DMC]

Sure, now they say it. Where were those articles prior to this.

Bandwagon media. They see an opportunity and they take it. Maybe if media wasn't riding the Lakers' s all the time even after 6 consecutive lottery seasons, creating a narrative about how important it is for the NBA that the Lakers return to glory, maybe no one would overrate them.

Neither Lebron nor Magic caused this. This was caused by LA player fans worshiping a dead superstar and LA paying him 50m to wave at the crowd in his warmups. This is the same guy who ran everyone off he ever played with who was worth a . This is the guy who poisoned the vine in LA. No no one wanted to play with him. The fact he still hovers around there keeps players away. He's a cancer, then and now.