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Welcome to the Los Angeles Lakers Appreciation Thread!
The Los Angeles Lakers
From the George Mikan-led Minneapolis Lakers teams of the '40s and '50s to the "Showtime" era Magic Johnson teams of the late 1980s to
Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant's dynasty of the early 21st century, one thing has been consistent about the Lakers: winning. The franchise
has boasted a host of Hall of Famers and has compiled a string of championships which has scarcely been rivaled in the history of American sports.
the links    the fans lakers0604 (sheila)
kingjames23 (cristina)
nessabruin (nessa)
miSStakentriSh (trisha)
lysee (rinaye)
BrucasForever<3
what are your hopes for next season?
What do I hope for next season. An obvious championship, and I’m sure it will come. We are going to have Kobe, Pau, Lamar, Fish and Bynum starting and it shall be amazing! Not to mention I believe our bench will only get better. I see major growth in Jordan and Sasha because they both want to be out there, on the floor, you can see it in their eyes and they will work hard for it. This season will keep the injuries to a minimum because if we’re aiming for that trophy, we can’t have that. We’re gonna start off the season amazingly and 08-09 will be the year of the Lake.
nessa.
What are my expectations for next year? With the season we had this year I don't anything could happen next year that would surprise us. We have potential, something we've known all along. And now we just need to live up to that potential again, and to the fullest. I'm expecting us to get to the NBA Finals and win. I know that may be a lot to ask for, but we all know we have the potential to do it. This year we made the Finals and NO ONE even saw that coming. Next year we'll come back ever better! We're getting over all our injuries. People tend to forget we were really injured during the finals. Kobe with his finger and back, DFish with his tendon, Pau with his ankle, Sasha with his ankle. Quite a list, but we're getting over the injuries. Also we're getting Andrew Bynum back and with him we will have the best front court in the NBA. The Lakers are a force to be reckoned with again. We will not rest the till trophy is back where it belongs, in LA! Not with the Clippers but with the Lakers.
sheila.
I want this squad to continue their exciting basketball, I want them to get better and live up to their potential. There’s going to be a lot of expectations of them this year, especially after what happened in the last season, and without a doubt, they won’t disappoint. They know what it takes to get through the playoffs, they know the pressure, they have the heart and they have the will. They have an amazing opportunity to bring the title back to Southern California, and bring glory back to Los Angeles. It’s more than just a hope, though. This dream is inevitable.
trisha.
fan fiction
locked in
by nessa
Jordan didn’t know what had possessed him to do such a thing, perhaps seeing the pain in his eyes and knowing he was the cause of it or maybe seeing him for the first time as an actual human being but one thing he did know was that he liked the feeling of Sasha’s lips under his and Sasha must be enjoying it too because he was responding back with the same amount of passion.
Sasha was in heaven or he thought this is what it must feel like to be in heaven. So many times he wondered what it would be like to taste Jordan’s lips, reality was so much better than what he had imagined. Sasha’s hands creeped in under Jordan’s shirt, rubbing circles on his bare skin, causing Jordan to shiver.
five times the lakers went out to dinner together
by trisha
They do this - have dinner together - every few weeks. It was just something they started doing on their nine-game road trip back in February, and somehow it carried over the entire year. It was never planned. But it was always Sasha Vujacic who asked. “You free tonight, Pau? How about you, Kobe? Derek? Jordy? Luke? Ronny?” And he’d go around the practice facility, asking all fourteen guys. That was the easy part. It always came down to a vote as to where they were going to eat. They would narrow it down to three restaurants, and hope there was a winner by the time the votes were all counted up.
stay
by nessa
Sasha put his hands on Kobe’s head and their foreheads were touching, ‘Kobe what’s best for me is to be with you, playing with you, out there on the court every night. You taught me how to be better and for that I am eternally grateful,’ he then looked up a bit to lock eyes with him right before his lips crashed on Kobe’s.
whispers in the night
by trisha
Sasha tells him everything.
Like how he had a girlfriend back home in Slovenia. She was a nice girl, he said. The kind of girl a guy would want to take home to meet his parents. Though, when he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a basketball career, things just ended. She stopped calling after every game. And then, he slowly forgot how she looked - how she sounded, even. She became a part of his past, as he moved on with his future.
what they say
lakers keep LA footloose
by bill plaschke
Comebacks and collapses, Kobe Bryant banging greatness or buying dinner, Sasha Vujacic's stalk and Pau Gasol's stork, Jordan Farmar's cockiness and Derek Fisher's calm.
And each of them, every night, talking to Lamar Odom as if he were a skittish child at the end of his first long car ride, stay calm, stay focused, we're almost there, just one more game, just one more. With each little triumph, these Lakers gesture and scream and pop their jerseys as if they just won a state high school championship. With each failure, they acknowledge and accept their mistakes as if they were just cut from the junior varsity.
It's fun, it's unpredictable, it's real.
it all adds up to a Lakers season no one figured on
by bill plaschke
Who would have believed it? Who could have believed any of it?
When Lamar Odom began the season, he looked clunky and confused.
On Tuesday, he fought and flew, didn't miss any of his five shots or five free throws, looked as if he actually belonged.
When Jordan Farmar began this season, he was still a questionable first-round draft pick.
On Tuesday, his running three-pointer at the end of the first half summarized a year of bells and whistles and surprise.
When Derek Fisher began the season, he was just another former Laker brought home for a final long shot at glory.
On Tuesday, he stepped confidently on the court as the quiet locker-room leader who sank that shot.
When Pau Gasol began the season . . . well, by now you get the point.
kobe has more than chants to be MVP
by bill plaschke
They followed him to a great start with the emergence of Bynum. They followed him to a great recovery with the acquisition of Pau Gasol.
They are following him now even though he's playing with a torn ligament in his pinkie finger that aches with every dribble and every slap.
They're following him, but, for once, they're not trailing behind him.
They're following alongside him, as he directs them on defense, finds them open on offense, energizes them, embraces them.
__________________ the world has watched him grow from teenage prodigy to tortured twentysomething
to the weekend a world away in China when Kobe Bryant could feel the burdens peeling
away like a second skin. “I’m just happy I made it to 30,” he said. “Now the pressure’s off.” ♥ |
Sorry ladies! Talk to you later tonight though! 
i'm glad you could be here for when it came up, though. yay!
oh, n! *pets* it was my absolute pleasure (even if i did... um, procrastinate and stuff. but in this week, i promise to get your animations done. all of them. holy crap, i've really procrastinated. damn.) i wish i could've done more, but alas. the concert and maths test tomorrow - i couldn't. meh. thread #21, though. 
gah! 
LOVE IT T!! OMG you and N did a great job! 
alright crack time for sure later 
