Lakers fans are losing it

[SparzWizard]

Whatever I ain't mad.

We still won game 7 vs those nimrods in 2010. AND they were up 13 in the 3rd.

So choking hasn't exactly been a revelation this season for those green ****s.

Obviously isn't mad

I ain't mad about the 2002 WCF. Nor the fact that Joey Crawford handed them 21 free throws in the 4th quarter in 2010.

But I ain't even mad coz the yellow-urinated colored shirts still have one less banner than the men in green. 

[Roy H.]

Adam Silver should be telling him not to condone tanking like that.

Adam Silver seems to condone tanking himself. 

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10597248/nba-commissioner-adam-silver-says-tanking-exist

Picking up right where David Stern left off, not surprising.

"The coaches and players, or some subset of that group, trying to lose, I don't think that's going on anywhere in the NBA,"

And I would take action immediately if I thought it was."

Of course you would Adam, of course you would.

"We have a system in place that encourages teams to rebuild," he said after the talk sponsored by Boston College in the hometown of the Celtics, who are among the league's rebuilding teams. "They are responding to the incentives that are built into the system. If the incentives aren't right, we have to change them."

To my reading, he's pretty explicitly talking about teams and players and coaches going out and actively throwing games, not about divesting a team of talent in order to get a high draft pick.

Right.  The distinction between "actively" and "passively" throwing games is a pretty fine one, though. 

[PhoSita]

It should be pointed out, having an "incentive to rebuild" isn't such a bad thing.  Teams rebuild even in leagues without draft lotteries.  I think the problem in the NBA is that there's too much incentive to rebuild sooner rather than stick with a "good but not great" group that might have a few nice seasons left in it.

[GreenFaith1819]

I guess liking the Celtics on Lakers forum is a no-no

 

http://i.imgur.com/EX4eupW.png

I clicked on that link, and I guess I've been banned from their forums, LOL...and I didn't even visit it.

..."But Mom, I didn't do ANYTHING"......

[Finkelskyhook]

Well...Los Nash got his historic assist last night.....So he can go back to channeling his inner Jermaine O'Neal by playing when he feels like it while collecting his paycheck.