Reply With Quote
Javaris Crittenton too
Surprise no mention of Josh Howard. Was an All Star in 2006-07, then basically out of the league just a few years later. Significant in the fact that it was only his fourth season, first all star game, and only 26. As someone who actually watched and followed the team pretty regularly back then, even I can't remember what happened to him after the 08-09 season
Javaris Crittenton too
Not exactly a great player but TJ Warren turned into prime Jordan in the bubble and was never heard from again after that
Injuries derailed his career.
Roy Tarpley
Ralph Sampson
Those 80s Mavs and Rockets teams were the only legit threats to the Showtime Lakers in the WC but that didn't last long
Tarpley had a second chance when he came back , I think it was in the mid 90s and he actually played well but he blew it, another ban
Last edited by lefty; 4 Weeks Ago at 09:08 AM.
The 80s. Aka the decade where magic partied so hard he got hiv but somehow never touched any drugs.
yep
And the Lakers had a cocaine filled nightclub in the Forum , but they didn't do drugs apparently
Oh man you gotta read about Landsberger in Pearlman's Showtime bookyep
And the Lakers had a cocaine filled nightclub in the Forum , but they didn't do drugs apparently
yeah he was somethingOh man you gotta read about Landsberger in Pearlman's Showtime book
Speaking of him, last year I posted a tweet making fun of the Lakers and the actor who played him in Winning Time liked it for some reason
He was super open with his wife and she didn't give a if he banged other women, but he went and told her Kareem, Cooper, and Worthy had side es and their wives were friends with Landsberger's wife so she told them. Got him basically kicked off the team after the 83 Finals.
Tyreke Evans averaged 20-5-5 his rookie year and looked like a sure thing.
Amare Stoudemire fell off the map after 2011.
Every once in a while I notice Blake Griffin is still playing and it blows my mind.
Oh that reminds me, Andrei Kirilenko.
Snitching is a Lakers traditionHe was super open with his wife and she didn't give a if he banged other women, but he went and told her Kareem, Cooper, and Worthy had side es and their wives were friends with Landsberger's wife so she told them. Got him basically kicked off the team after the 83 Finals.
- Yep, forgot about him
- Dejuan Wagner also looked promising his rookie year then disappeared
- Jamaal Tinsley had a decent rookie season, he even had a triple double that season
Jennings scored 55 in his first game or something like that. Then disappeared.
But without him we'd still be hiding under the furniture. His gross failure(s) in '83 & '84 to the Celtics did not crush him as they'd crushed West, Baylor, me, et al. Instead of crawling away like the Celtics were bent on making him do///they knew he was "dangerous" and tried desperately to get him to fold like the other Lakers had---Magic instead did what Jimmy Dean's mighty song directed him to do...Over the summer of '84 he grabbed the jacks & timbers and started back down. After a 100-game grailed quest culminated on 9 June 1985 in Boston we'd broken thru. We've never looked back.
He never threw it in their face, but he was no country preacher. That was hi-tech wet work. He knew.
You got Parker ratting as well.Snitching is a Lakers tradition
Exactly. Which is why he was never suspended by the league while the entire Houston backcourt and the Mavs got the treatment. Can’t make that up.
I remembered when that happened, everybody here lost it when I said he was a stat padder
That's conjecture.
Oh yeah. But if the opposite happened you’d be swearing up and down the hallway like the suns won a le.
That (if) is a cruel master, amb. Him slapin' that Miami hardwood a ready example.
That POS was Lakers spy, disrupted us on purpose in 2002, 2004 and 2008
You only say this because the lakers are always on the good end.
You don't think '83 & '84 were catastrophic? If he taps out were done, done-done. I didn't think he had it in him to be the one to lead us from the darkness and into light forever more. The Celtics had put him on-the-spot to be destroyed. They knew he COULD be the one, but if they stomped the life out of him they'd be able to rule the NBA another 5-10 years and effectively end us and him for good.
The story he tells about (it) is bull . What he had to do---what he did is buried deep in his heart and soul and he will not share. That's fine. I was withered after '84. He brought me back to the fore and I ain't never forgettin' that. Ever. It's my religion.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
