jpapagan's Blog

Seriously, this is the slant that the L.A. media is taking with this Lakers team?  When they beat the Spurs to advance to the NBA Finals, all of the media in L.A. was delivering the story of "... a goal that was four years in the making" and even worse, I heard one reporter say "Lakers fans have been waiting a long time for this..."

Are you kidding me?

This is hardly a franchise that's been starved for success or been deprived of greatness for any marginally significant stretch of time. 

I even heard one media outlet say something to the effect of "First there was Magic, Worthy and Kareem, now there's Kobe, Pau and Lamar!"

Did everyone forget that the Lakers won THREE NBA titles IN THIS DECADE???  are we forgetting that Kobe's already been here 4 times with Shaq Daddy 2001-2004 and won rings three of them??

Look, in full disclosure, I'm a Celtics fan, but I was  rooting FOR THE LAKERS to beat the Spurs, because I want to watch a Lakers-Celtics Finals. 

But please, media, don't take this approach with this Lakers' run.  It just sounds idiotic, pompous and entitled and insulting.  The Celtics haven't been to the finals in 21 years but even I'm not stupid enough to play the "finally, after years of torture" card and pretend that they haven't had many years of success.