2. Classless
Maybe the most embarrassing performance in Lakers history. Not only didn't they show up for game four against Dallas, then they turned into thugs. Back to back ejections in the fourth quarter. For years you always used the words Lakers and class in the same sentence. But I guess that only applies when a team is winning. There's such a thing as being a graceful loser. Not this bunch. They're just a bunch of losers. Good riddance.
I've been a Laker fan since the 60s. I've always loved them as the great players have come and gone. Yesterday's despicable performances by Lamar Odom and especially Andrew Bynum were absolutely mind-numbing for me.
Bynum's explanation?
"We were getting embarrassed, they were breaking us down. So I just fouled somebody," Bynum said after the game. "I was just kind of salty about being embarrassed. ... For me, it was embarrassing to have the smallest guy on the court keep running down the lane and making shots."
So he was being "salty." Great. He could have destroyed J.J. Barea's career with that shot to the ribs. Oh, right, he was just being "salty." Pathetic.
Some of the Magic (pun intended) has been taken out of me re the Lakers. I'm not sure I'll ever appreciate the Lakers the way I had until yesterday. From class to classless. They say one major screw up will take away 20 "attaboys." The Lakers have a lot of "attaboys" (definitely more than twenty!) to get me back to the way I appreciated them before this egregious game.
They better trade Bynum and Odom pronto. Ron Artest can accompany them as well. I don't want thugs on my Laker team. I'd rather see them lose than play the game like yesterday. I want a team with class.
Whatever happened to that quaint word "Sportsmanship"?
