We have one more chance

I won’t take years off, but I will take this finals off if that is the outcome.

Because Pop doesn’t stoop to Jackson’s level (remember the mid-game interview, why Jackson does NOT get fined by the NBA for directly stating it, I don’t know) and because it’s true that Kobe quit on his team not 1 time, but 2 times in the past 2-3 years?

I just have this really bad feeling when people-regardless of sports or whatever-up and quit on thier “team” be it the one they work for, or play for, for petty and / or selfish reasons. That’s why I can’t cheer for thier coach or star player, and if you can’t cheer for either of those 2, I just don’t see cheering for the team at all.

To keep it in sports, I suppose...you will never see Duncan, or Jordan back in the day, or Garnett, or any of the Pistons (since they operate as more of a "team" than anyone, even the Spurs at times), or Boozer/Williams, or Paul, etc. etc. scream bloody murder, rip apart thier front office, cry and demand trades non-stop, bemoan and belittle his own friggin' teammates, and then when they pull of something great act like it never happened. (not touching the Game 7 vs. Pheonix, that's it's own can of worms).  Closest thing to that was Allen Iverson demanding a trade from the Sixers (when you consider star power, etc), and no one sure roots for him that much.

As for Jackson, he even came out and wrote a book ridiculing Kobe, and Shaq, and the whole Laker foundation, and ripped it to shreds. Then he comes back like “oh, nothing happened…that book? My evil twin wrote it!! Yeah!!” And the fact that when the Lakers win he acts all smug like it was ordained, and when they lose it was ANYONE’s fault but thiers…the refs, the lighting, the floor being slick, whatever. He hardly ever gives cred to the other team, unless it’s something like “oh, they beat us, yes…but not as much as we beat ourselves. If we don’t beat ourselves, we never lose.”

Just take last night’s game for the difference in teams….Jackson rips the refs MID-GAME, and after the game, when even the NBA itself was like “that was a foul, oops, sorry” Jackson was sitting there smiling and saying “oh, it happens.” I guarantee you if Bones had jumped into Fisher with the Spurs up by 2 points, and had the Lakers been playing awful but only down 2, and no foul called? Jackson would have been livid, and probably fined LOTS of cash for ripping the refs left and right. We all see how the Spurs handled thier “whip cream on s(&.” :)

But, to make a long post longer, I will give a LOT of props to the fans, such as yourself pslakerfan, I luv ya, and esp. to Jack Nicholson. Man, if we only had a die-hard fan like that. (star power, etc. again).... I was giddy when Detroit whipped up on the Lakers in 04, but then during the post-game cast, Nicholson used his star power to get on the air, and personally congradulated the Pistons and thier fans for beating his Lakers. THAT is class, and I will never diss the true fans or him at all.

I’m not giving up on the Spurs, the Lakers have lost 3-1 leads before, the Spurs played them close 3 outta 4 games, even when 2 of those games they played like crap at least 1/2 of the game, and it’s only been last series when the Spurs were against a similar wall, and came out on top. BUT should the Lakers win, I just can’t root for them…sorry :(

You’re right on with Jordan; had he been less than the game’s Babe Ruth we’d be hearing FAR more about the poor teammate he was.

Kobe has actually gone further, saying before that he didn’t believe Bowen to be dirty and that no one plays him better. I know this for a fact, because it’s the only thing keeping me from hating Bryant. He seems to give respect where respect is due and regardless of personal feelings about the man, that’s impressive in today’s game.

We actually feel no shame whatsoever about the Wally-kick. In fact, we’re quite proud of it. If I ever meet Wally, it’s going to be very difficult for me not to drop kick him in the jaw as well..