Sunday, November 2, 2008

It Feels Good to Be a Lakers Fan

"Los Angeles Lakers: Kobe, Kobe, Kobe. God, I'm sick of Kobe. Will he or won't he be traded? The drama never ends. But this team isn't going to be a contender with or without Kobe. Yes, yes...it's a good time to hate the Lakers."

Basketbawful.com, October 30th, 2007

"The Los Angeles Lakers won 57 games in the toughest conference in the history of everything and went to the NBA Finals after destroying the reigning champions en route."

Paraphrase of NBA.com, June 2008

Hmmmm....

5 erotic poetry prompts:

Clifton November 2, 2008 at 11:35 PM  

"The Los Angeles Lakers won 57 games in the toughest conference in the history of everything and went to the NBA Finals after destroying the reigning champions en route."

...and were defeated by a Boston team that was barely even trying.

Everyone's spreading praise on the Lakers as if they actually won the championship. I can't follow it. What, so, they won the conference. Fantabulous. Boston was sleepwalking and still defeated them pretty handily; those spurts where the Celtics woke up and played some ball, like in the 2nd quarter of Game 6, showed their true colors. It was like having easy pick'ns all season in the East had lulled the Celts to sleep.

By the way, these gummi snacks are fantastic.

The Filthy Logician November 3, 2008 at 7:26 AM  

You're totally right. The Lakers sucked balls in the finals. It was the craziest turnaround in the world of things. I mean, when has a team so thoroughly dominated the Western Conference (which has a shitload of good teams), and then get worked in the Finals like it was all a joke?

I'm still trying to figure it out.

Basketbawful November 4, 2008 at 2:44 PM  

Now how could I have possibly predicted that David Stern would force Chris Wallace to gift the Lakers with Pau Gasol to draw attention away from the Tim Donaghy scandal? Or that Stern would pull a Tonya Harding on Ginobili's ankle to facilitate the Lakers' trip to the Finals? Impossible.

Beyond that, with all the crap I write, I have to get something wrong now and then, right?

The Filthy Logician November 4, 2008 at 4:50 PM  

You've never been more correct, sir. In fact, after last season, I nearly made Jesus Christ my savior to keep the good luck rolling.

And lo and behold, Bynum is back!