The Clippers now have put pressure on the Lakers, and how funny a sentence is that?
They have become the talk of the town, exciting and packed with all kinds of promise, while it’s the same old Lakers.
Well, not even the same old Lakers if you lose Lamar Odom, Shannon Brown and Chris Paul.
“We did our best to make this trade happen,” says Jim Buss, who has been working with Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak. “They just offered a better deal.
“But as Lakers fans know, we’ve always done our best to improve the team. And we will continue to do so.”
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The Lakers are still talking Dwight Howard, but Orlando is letting everyone know it’s not listening.
So here we sit, comparing the Clippers to the Lakers, and the Lakers are coming off as the losers.
Whom do the Lakers have to match the unbridled enthusiasm attached to Blake Griffin‘s high-flying game?
Kobe has been there and done it, but the new kid in town is fresh, and how good will he be with Paul feeding him the ball? The anticipation alone is thrilling.
Cutting through Clippers euphoria, the Lakers probably still will win more games, but there’s just no buzz about them.
I don’t know if it’s true the Clippers had more to offer than the Lakers in trading for Paul, but right now it sure looks like the Clippers have more to offer fans looking to be entertained.
Griffin and CP3 together. Yeah, go ahead and make the case you just can’t wait for Metta World Whatever to put on a show or hear what handicap spot Andrew Bynum might park in next.
The Lakers’ routine in so many ways has become tiresome. In part it’s because we know everything about them, as they have dominated the sports landscape here for so long.
Maybe more than anyone else, Pau Gasol embodies the lack of sizzle. He’s the reason the Lakers took a championship turn the past few years, but one bad month has apparently made him trade fodder.
Who is excited here now to watch Pau play?
The Clippers have a bunch of new guys and youngsters on the climb; the Lakers have Kobe, and only the mystery on any given night whether he will be the facilitator or the ball hog.
The Lakers have a real problem, all right. And I’m not talking about ESPN‘s Doug Gottlieb, who was saying Wednesday night Kobe is getting older and the Lakers will be losing fans to the Clippers.
Kobe is getting older, but there’s a long way to go before the Lakers start running pictures of the opposition in newspaper advertisements in the hopes of selling tickets.