flea, close minded laker fan here

so, about this dress code...............................who cares?
i don't care if they wear suits and ties, go naked or wear clown suits,
i wanna see 'em on the court hoopin it up like the geniuses they are
why should i be worried about david stern's power trip?
i love basketball, not fashion
david stern could never rob the league of it's black culture
and i don't care whether a bunch of right wing red staters love the nba
or not

allen iverson is already a great role model
no matter what her wears
he is a great artist
nobody ever held picasso's personal life up for judgment when it came
to his art
they just studied it and appreciated it

now about some serious matters

i remember once in the '80s when mike smrek was on the lakers and
detlef schrempf was on the supersonics
and smrek was guarding schrempf
chickie was going crazy calling the game
"its schrempf on smrek! i mean shcrmrek on smrempf! smrek blocks smrek's
shot! SCHMREKALMPF!
and so on

greatest basketball names of all time:

world b free
sedale threatt
tayshaun prince
latrell sprewell
downtown freddie brown
moochie norris
mookie blaylock
spud webb
cazzie russell
ira newble
manute bol
muggsy bogues
cherokee parks
shandon anderson (it's the shand and that gets me)
god shammgod
and the incomparable smush parker

greatest basketball player of all time:

magic johnson
this is the truth
god's truth
there is no question here

greatest general manager of all time:

jerry west

for a guy that had the presence of mind to get bill russell on his team
red auerbach sure is making a moron of himself
first he complains that phil jackson isn't a great coach because he
inherited teams that someone else had put together to win
championships, first jordan, and then shaq and kobe
now he is complaining that phil is a cop out because he took the lakers
job and if he doesn't win he can use the excuse of 'rebuilding'...
why doesn't he make up his mind which hair brained insult he is gonna
use?
michael didn't win anything for 6 years before phil came on
and shaq and kobe were 2nd round failures til phil came along
the guy is the best basketball coach of all time
red is just bummed and insecure because the lakers trounced the celtics
in the eighties and won 5 championships then went and rocked again in
the new millenium while the celtics languished with their only bright
hope being l.a. native paul peirce,
i don't care how many guys named green they get

ok so last night i tuned into the lakers with great hope
waiting for the mystery to unravel, for the drama to unfold in all it's
glory
i sat on my bed, 'sweet georgia brown' playing in my head, my week old
daughter ready to watch her second game
the anticipation was great,
and then my heart which was bursting with laker delight was slowly
deflated over 48 minutes of torture
while steve nash decimated the lazy disorganized laker defense
while i suffered in true laker fan agony
those fools gotta get back on d
d............
my friend gage says kwame is lost and mihm is soft and they should put
andrew bynum in 'til he learns
mihm needs to stop playing angry and play smart
i keep hoping that they will learn the triangle and the tide will turn
it does bad things to my insides when they lose
i still don't understand why i am so emotionally involved with a bunch
of guys i don't know and who could care less whether or not i exist
i guess that's the mystery of it

love is a mystery

the lakers should sign tractor traylor
and crazy man latrell

boy i thought the heat was unbeatable but i forgot that indiana is
gonna win the east this year
but indiana is a weird team
maybe it is just the vibe left over from the battle royale in detroit
last year
but artest and stephen jackson have a pretty scary vibe
i know they are great players but they seems pretty mean
artest is unreal though, so powerful of a player, so strong
they play so well as a team though, they move the ball around with
vicious precision
controlled violence is good
all of us have it
to harness it for the greater good is what great people do
i like nice players who rock like crazy, like james worthy
i do get a nice feeling from jermaine o'neal

not only does the heat's perimeter game appear to be weak
but i will be surprised if their team chemistry can build into a year
long harmonious song
their coach, ron jeremy, has a lot or work on his hands
i like sleek fast finesse players like eddie jones and tayshaun prince

i love kareem abdul-jabbar, the greatest center of all time with the
possible exception of bill russell

smush parker is my kind of guy

the bucks are gonna be the sleeper team this year
that t.j. ford can play the point like nobody's business
and my country mate australian bogut is gonna be solid
everyone knows michael redd is the real deal

upwards and onwards,
play bynum,

always,

flea