SBNation - Laker mystique is dead.

[RightTwoCensor]

I'm die-hard Lakers fan and I can confirm we suck and will suck for decades on.

I wish we were the Houston Rockets, now those guys are winners.

[Rooster]

I'm die-hard Lakers fan and I can confirm we suck and will suck for decades on.

I wish we were the Houston Rockets, now those guys are winners.

winners

[gts]

I wonder if SBnation writers get paid by volume.

you wonder if they get paid at all


People need to ask themselves when was the Lakers last big name free agent signing of a player in his prime then check themselves before saying things like Lakers can't draw big name free agents anymore, the mystique is gone...

hint it was 19 years ago

[Springsteen]

I don't know why people complain about renting prices in Los Angeles, around here it always seems free.

Are you actually a Warriors fan? Everytime I see you post it seems you are slobbering the Lakers and Kobe's knob 24/7

[dazzer87]

Apparently Lakers offered Monroe a max contract and he still chose Bucks

https://twitter.com/ramonashelburne

[KG215]

Apparently Lakers offered Monroe a max contract and he still chose Bucks

https://twitter.com/ramonashelburne

Because the Bucks are in a much better state as an team/organization right now than the Lakers.

That's a sentence I never thought I'd post on ISH.

[senelcoolidge]

Ever since Jerry died, the organization has been in a free fall.

Jim Buss

This. It won't be the same lakers. Those glory days are gone. Jerry Buss in not coming back from the dead.

[alanLA92]

you wonder if they get paid at all


People need to ask themselves when was the Lakers last big name free agent signing of a player in his prime then check themselves before saying things like Lakers can't draw big name free agents anymore, the mystique is gone...

hint it was 19 years ago

Lakers do the most damage in trades. Funny how people forget this and think the Lakers always get the FA like the Yankees.

[STATUTORY]

free agency is a suckers play in the NBA

lakers rebuilding through draft like always

[Springsteen]

free agency is a suckers play in the NBA

lakers rebuilding through draft like always

Yea, Shaq was a real steal in the draft by the Lakers. Don't know how Jerry pulled that one off.

[Mirror]

free agency is a suckers play in the NBA

lakers rebuilding through draft like always

[Bosnian Sajo]

Jim Buss destroyed the Laker brand the moment he went with Mike Brown over Adelman as the head coach in 2011. Then he went completely senile a year later and hired D'Antoni in an effort to bring back the showtime lakers. The only problem with that was the Gasol and Howard front-court. Clearly, this is a case of an owner who doesn't know how to think straight and get the best out of his roster. Kobe doesn't make terrible management decisions nor does he have any say in them, so I don't think he deserves the blame.

I still don't understand how or why Mitch and Jeanie just stayed quite and let all that happen. Had Phil come to the team, I don't think we would ever be in this position. Those coaching moves were so damn frustrating, Brown is an IDIOT ****ING MORON and 'antoni just straight up didn't fit on the team, at ALL...at least Byron isn't a nut job.

[BBallZen83]

free agency is a suckers play in the NBA

lakers rebuilding through draft like always

You're trying too hard.

[Megabox!]

This dude's really hyping up the Lakers SECURING MEETINGS!

My how the mighty have fallen.

[Mr. Jabbar]

Anyone who doesn't want to sign with this team is A: soft, B: can't handle the "big lights", C: has a small dick, or D: is not a alpha.

Not because they don't want to play on a shitty team, right.

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