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I think by the year 2012 the Lakers will make the playoffs. By then there will be 40 teams and it will be the top ten in each conference that move on.
Posted on a Laker site we all know well this AM.
"On another site they said I did not have the guts to post this here - so here it goes.
Based on the Lakers recent implosion a plausible scenario of the future of the NBA:
It is the year 2012 and the NBA community is shaking it head. Despite the retirement of Duncan the indomitable Tony Parker (now married to Eva Longoria) and the elder statesman Ginobli plus 6 guys with names with 20 characters are on their way to another potential championship under PJ Carlisimo, who took over for Pop last year after faithfully turning down several other offers. Pop gave him the reins the day after Pop won his first championship sans Duncans. Scola has become a budding superstar as well as some Lithuanian whose name is hard to pronounce and a guy named Beno remaims the best back up guard in the game and increasingly takes over for the aging Parker at key points.
They are facing this year the revived NY Knicks with James, an aging Kobe, an aging KG and bits and pieces that Isiah has gathered around them. These 3 mega-stars despite their great past are not favored over the deeper, team oriented and defense minded Spurs who won 65 games this year steamrolling through the playoffs. Somehow, like the 2003-2004 Lakers the sum of these great players has not meshed fully expected and the great Garnett is now not as explosive to the rim, Kobe is a jump shooter. James is their one true super, super star and will he be enough? He has been supplimented in popularity by the great Wade who now wears 3 rings, 2 with Shaq and one by himself. Like Kobe he is no longer mentioned as potentially the greatest ever although his talents remain incredible. At this point, James is still 0 for 10 in the playoffs and many are comparing his career more to that of Charles Barkley, Ewing, Malone and other greats who just did not get it done. However, they will be a tough out based on the pride of one Kobe Bryant, the stubborness of Kevin Garnett and James still incredible skill.
Since moving Kobe who gave an ultimatum - LA has once again a lottery bound team, and has gotten several high picks and even Jason Kidd for a couple of years. But even that has not stopped the losing trend. Bringing in the peripatic Brown helped for a year or so, and they got to the semi-finals, but then he retired due to "burnout". Meanwhile, their cross town rivals the Clippers are celebrating their first division championship and appear ready to test the Spurs in the coming years along with Golden State of all teams.
What hurts the most is one usually does not see commonly Penny and Jack N. at the Lakers games along with their other cluster of aging LA wannabees. The Lakers have lost their luster, and tickets go at face value and many seats are empty again and again. Brad Pitt and his rat pack now attend the trendy Clippers games and the Clips are building finally their own downtown arena that has Hollywood abuzz.
Could it happen this way, yes will it = who knows?? However, 12/13 does not portend great things without a major turnaround, major new leadership and most of all some stability."
I think by the year 2012 the Lakers will make the playoffs. By then there will be 40 teams and it will be the top ten in each conference that move on.
beno taking over an aging parker at key points????
the author does realize these two have the same age aight?
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Last edited by san antonio spurs; 09-17-2011 at 10:26 AM.
Got me thinking there. Wonder what will become of the league by 2012? What expansion teams will be added or teams relocating? What rule changes will be in place? What will the uniforms be like? Who knows.
hopefully el paso gets a team
largest american city without a major professional sports team
Really? Wow, never crossed my mind, but you're probably right. Then again, what about Las Vegas?
its a fact
just like Kinsasha in the capital of Zaire
El Paso, the capital of the newly formed country, Mexiteria, will have an NBA team, but not in basketball. With the largest Plaza de Toros north of Mexico City, El Paso will be an upstart winner in the National Bullfighting Association (NBA)
El Paso, the capital of the newly formed country, Mexiteria, will have an NBA team, but not in basketball. With the largest Plaza de Toros north of Mexico City, El Paso will be an upstart winner in the National Bullfighting Association (NBA)
According to population Austin has abot 200000 more people than elpaso. It does not have a profesional sports team
El Paso has same problem as San Antonio. The population is isolated from other population centers so the agglomerated/greatet metropolitain "market" is comparatively small.
The above is the killer, but also, what are the per capita incomes for SA and EP? I bet the large number of low-wage workers (if they were all accounted for as population head-count as well as wage-earners) would rate the two cities lower as markets to be bled of money.
EP is so freaking poor. The nearest US city of any size is Albuquerque, some 250 miles north. And unless scorpions and rattlesnakes start buying tickets, there is zero regional market to speak of.
I'm not counting Juarez. There is no money in Juarez.
Ice Bats?
Bats, as under the Austin bridge?
The bats only come out from under the bridge 3 or 4 SUMMER months/year.
Ice plus Bats? Insane.
its about as stupid as the only public high school in my home town making its mascot the Vipers, and then aren't allowed to have snake-like pictures on any of their gear because its "related to devil worshipping"
Nice hair Mr. Rodman. Those were the days.
I've actually been to an Ice Bats game. Pretty cool. Except for the guy knocked completely unconscious when he was checked headfirst into the boards.
Plus, what about the Round Rock Express?
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