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Post subject: Poll: Which was a worse moment in Laker history for you??
 Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 12:58 AM PST
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Yes, another poll. 
The Los Angeles Lakers have won many NBA Championships. We've witnessed all these wonderful, countless championships and extraordinary performances by Laker legends.
However, this team has had their not so great moments. I listed moments in recent memory, which felt terrible going through.
Which was worse for you? Choose wisely and (if you can) leave reasons/explanations as to why your moment left you in the most agony. |
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Post subject: RE: Poll: Which was a worse moment in Laker history for you?
Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 01:01 AM PST
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| Trading Caron Butler for Kwame Brown. |
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Post subject: RE: Poll: Which was a worse moment in Laker history for you?
Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 01:09 AM PST
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| Kobe Bryant's 2007 Offseason Tirade!! I tought hes gone I almost cry!! |
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Post subject: Re: RE: Poll: Which was a worse moment in Laker history for
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Kobe420 wrote:
Trading Caron Butler for Kwame Brown.
I'll add that, Chick Hearn's death, letting the Suns come back from a 3-1 deficit in the 05-06 playoffs, letting Boston back from a 24-point lead, and losing this year's title by 39 points. |
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Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 01:39 AM PST
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Magic Johnson's HIV Announcement. That was stunning, devastating. I was nearly in tears. Seriously. From what we knew about HIV, I literally felt that he had just announced that he was dead.
Kobe's arrest was pretty stunning. |
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Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 02:07 AM PST
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I agree with Apogeal on this one. The other choices do not involve the future health of anybody (N.B. - as much as Chick Hearn was an integral part of Laker history, death is part of life and we all must pass sooner or later - we will always remember Chick with much fondness). Magic Johnson's persona was much larger than just considerations of mere basketball alone. Most fans at that time probably had my same reaction, that of worrying about Magic's immediate health and life expectancy - the ramifications of the announcement for the future impact on the team were only secondary.
The very distant second place was the Bryant question in Colorado. However, I was not overly worried about it as I correctly assessed at that time that it was simply a question of a mendacious postibula (translate - lying whore) obfuscating the facts and wanting to cash in the chips! I never did believe the rape allegation, so dear to all of the Kobe-haters of the world. |
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Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 01:24 PM PST
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2004 nba finals
kobe, shaq, gary, and karl.
then they lost and it ended a dynasty |
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Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 01:48 PM PST
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| Magic's HIV announcement or Chicks death. The Kobe tirade won't stick with the organization for long... Hearn's death is with the Lakers forever. |
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Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 02:30 PM PST
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in my lifetime (i was just 1 when Magic announced he had HIV), I remember the 2004 Finals loss so vividly in my memory...I cried for a few hours, then entered a state of depression for most of that summer since nothing in the offseason really helped. They just weren't supposed to go down like that that year. On the other hand, Kobe's offseason tirade didn't effect me AT ALL. I just knew he wouldn't be traded. Kobe's arrest didn't bother me either. I'm not taking this year's loss so badly either.
Another devastating defeat was losing the 3-1 lead to the Suns...I was almost crushed. One Tim Thomas 3 pointer in game 6 changed our destiny. We would've went on to defeat the Clippers and Mavs (in my opinion since that year we crushed the Mavs in the season and don't forget Kobe had his 62 in 3 quarters against Dallas that year) and would've lost to the Heat in the Finals. |
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Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 02:44 PM PST
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| Kobe Bryant's arrest. This was my hero - my idol growing up, and now there was a possibility that he was a rapist? Just stunning. |
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Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 03:05 PM PST
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Strangely the 2004 Finals is probably to this day the Laker Final loss that I am less unhappy about. Certainly, it helps that I have seen quite a few more of these Finals and I am sure that for the young fans 2004 was perhaps devastasting.
The reason for me is that it would somehow have been an injustice had Los Angeles won that year. This was a year in which I was generally pissed off at the team itself for getting into such a crummy state of mind, and blame was everywhere for the rampant backbiting. O'Neal decided to don the vestments of the protagonist of Moliere's Le Malade imaginaire for more than half the season - while getting fat and out of shape on pizza and hamburgers - arriving to the playoffs pretty much out of shape and non-competitive. Gary Payton - a late arrival - tremendous mistake - was of a still decent talent trying to splice him into the triangle offense - he just never did get the hang of it and played abysmally throughout the playoffs. Kobe Bryant - at open warfare by now with both O'Neal and with the Coach - I have always been convinced that Kobe purposefully tanked the Final series just so that things would change within the Club (translate O'Neal to be shown the door). Lastly, Karl Malone. I have always resented the Laker Front Office for putting me into the quandary of trying to support my Team, the Lakers, while hoping Malone would just not do well. In a certain real sense, I can take solace at the Lakers not having won in 2004 just so that Karl Malone would have to retire a Loser, and never having won a Championship ring. The jerk!
No, all in all, the Lakers just did not merit to win in 2004! |
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Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 05:07 PM PST
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It's not even close in my opinion with my choice.
Magic's HIV announcement was the worst moment in Laker history for me. The reason why is the year before my mom's boyfriend passed from AIDS, lucky for us my mom never contracted the disease. I slowly saw this great guy wither away. For Magic, my favorite Laker of all time to pretty uch announce that absolutely blew me away, just going to school on the bus I was fighting tears the whole way through. It took me a while to even accept that announcement and that the testing may have been wrong and so on. To me it was a matter of life and that to me meant so much more than the game, the league, the team, etc... |
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"It made me feel like I should throw mine away." - Larry Bird, upon hearing that Kobe hadn't earned the MVP trophy until this year.
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Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 05:14 PM PST
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| kobes arrest his career couldve been over if that ***** didnt drop the charges! Shes a lying money sucking whore! |
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Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 05:16 PM PST
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| Cuckooroller: I feel you on the 2004 finals loss to the Psitons. I wanted to see them win it all of course, but I was really annoyed by the Lakers team as a whole. I hate to see teams coast through out games and just turn it on whenever the feel it's appropriate. I was fed up with O' Neal and his whining and his playing his way into shape during the season. I got tired of Gary Payton and his screaming at the refs on even the most obvious fouls he committed. I grew tired of Karl Malone with his terrible passes into traffic, but he was still no where annoying as O' Neal and Payton to me, I didn't carry that team in my heart like I did other Laker squads. |
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Posted: Jul 07, 2008 - 04:29 AM PST
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gemfow wrote:
It's not even close in my opinion with my choice.
Magic's HIV announcement was the worst moment in Laker history for me. The reason why is the year before my mom's boyfriend passed from AIDS, lucky for us my mom never contracted the disease. I slowly saw this great guy wither away. For Magic, my favorite Laker of all time to pretty uch announce that absolutely blew me away, just going to school on the bus I was fighting tears the whole way through. It took me a while to even accept that announcement and that the testing may have been wrong and so on. To me it was a matter of life and that to me meant so much more than the game, the league, the team, etc...
That announcement to this day still feels like a dream. I remember my entire family standing around the tv crying like it was the end of the world. It felt like it too. |
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| Hmm...I'm not really sure |
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| LKnight: It was crazy that morning that I heard it. To this day even though people argue up Jordan, I believe that Magic was the best. Too few people can dominate a game without scoring and he was one of them, but I grew tired of bickering between Jordan groupies, so I don't even mention it anymore, I can say there pobably will never be a player like him, probably not even close. In my opinion the difference between Magic and other big guards is tha tMagic was a 6'9" point guard and others are 6'9" guys who can play the point, it was Magic's mentality to get the ball to others. |
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"It made me feel like I should throw mine away." - Larry Bird, upon hearing that Kobe hadn't earned the MVP trophy until this year.
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Posted: Jul 07, 2008 - 12:23 PM PST
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too many bad moments....
2004 finals.....
2007 offseason....
2005-2006 playoff vs Suns....
Kobe arrest.....
2008 finals.... |
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Posted: Jul 07, 2008 - 12:25 PM PST
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| and when Bynum blew his knee..... the whole morning waiting for the MRI results....... |
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Posted: Jul 07, 2008 - 02:07 PM PST
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I will add a couple more overlooked by having little sense of Laker history.
Los Angeles - vs- Detroit 1989 Finals - We would probably have won this series, but Magic went down with a hamstring injury in Game 1, and we were subsequently swept
Los Angeles - vs- Chicago 1991 Finals - The series where Chicago decided to play like Boston. We won Game 1 on their floor. They gained back the homecourt by beating us in Game 3 in L.A., then they decided that to put us away the best things would be to purposely injure our key players to win the series on the cheat... Game 4 saw them injuring both Byron Scott, and James Worthy - so, a great win for the classless Chicago team. Without those two players we were not competitive obviously. |
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