The Lakers didn't have home-court advantage, a Sacramento-area hotel gave Kobe food poisoning after Game 1 on the road, Shaq shot 1 FREE THROW in Game 5, and the Lake Show still took the series in 7.
What a beautiful franshise team and the best in the nba history but whatever happened to the fans when everyone in staples center used to where all gold? now everything looks different but as long as we sheering for the lakers it's all good! GO LAKERS!
Oh please….Portland missed 13 straight wide open shots in the 4th quarter. That wasn’t the Lakers doing the choking. The was the Blazers gagging on their own after having a 15 point lead with 10 minutes remaining.
lets be honest if these laker coaches coaching staff with players kept their cool never let petty things get to them they would have had over 19 larry o brien championship trophies plus rings and that would be 30 for their glorious organization and the other teams would have zero championships to this day real facts
The good ol' days when the NBA was fun to watch and not just because the Lakers were good. Today's rules sometimes makes it an unwatchable product. I miss the NBA when contact was inevitable in the sport and how laughable today's fouls or even flagrant fouls are called. Pippen checking the oppositon defensively all over the court , KG talking smack, an in-shape Shawn Kemp dunking everytime on Alton Liston, LOL! and or Shaq destroying the rim after running thru people. Men playing basketball and not placating to certain demographics. I get it though its a business.
No it wasn't, ya blithering dumbshit. He was with the NBA on NBC until the end after 2002..sure, it was the end of the Costas era as far as PBP duties go, which he did for 3 seasons, this 2000 season being the last, but that's it. Bob was okay, but we all know Marv was the greatest..
Ehh, they could have used a different tune. Say Sirius, Phil Jackson's old music. That really would get Kobe Bryant going, being introduced to the same music as Michael Jordan.
Looking for uploads of Laker intros from the 80's. Lawrence Tanter "And the Captian, Ka - reem Abdul Jabbarrrrr" Celtic ones from the 80's too. Can't find them.
But just bc Utah were southwest division champs. Portland had the homecourt advantage against them in the 2nd round withbetter results in regular season
What about the closing 2 minutes of Game 5 when the Kings knocked the ball out of bounce but it was called on the Lakers. On that same possession, Peja hit a 3pter. Not to mention the last play of the game when Bobby Jackson was pulling on Kobe's jersey while he took that last shot. Kings win Game 5 by 1pt thanks to a bad call and a no call.
