L*kers are quickly moving up my board of favorite teams. From 30th a year ago to 28th now (#30 = South Beach and #29 = Boston).
This is a new level of acceptance for me. When Jerome Kersey joined the Lakers, I disowned him retroactively until after he retired. That I don't wish physical pain on Blake because he's a Laker is new.
So...BLANKY or Blaker? What's the official nickname now? Or both? Make new nicknames, but keep the old...one is silver and the other gold.
So ... I've got a little crow to eat. I railed against "Blank" the whole first half of last season because he was really shitting the bed (PER of something like 7-8) and I still stand by the assertion that Miller should have started over him, but I now wish we would have traded Bayless and Catfish to that other LA team for Camby. I hate Blanky the starter, but he's a pretty ideal backup 1. C'est la vie. Happy trails Blaker. EDIT: Fixed
I don't know if Blake would have come back. We already shipped him out twice. Plus his best shot at a ring came calling.
After being traded twice I don't think he wold have come back here for the 4 years 16 million. But yeah maybe I'd resign him if he wanted to come back, but I'd still want the Blazers to do everything they can to get a legit "star" to play there for the next 4 or 5 years. But he'd be a reliable veteran reserve, and probably a better investment than Wes Matthews as a 7M/year backup 2/3. Meh, whatever he's certainly no make it or break it kind of player.
If we could've had Blake AND Camby against the Suns, I think we would've stood a better chance. Blake had a very good game against Nash when we beat the Suns in the regular season. Congratulations Lakers: your PG defense got upgraded from "non existent" to "adequate".
Travis Outlaw got the nickname because of his love of fishing and because he was from the South ... I think it was our radio analyst, Antonio Harvey who coined it.
I hope the L*kers go 0-82 next year with Kobe averaging 50 points a game and Blake averaging 20 assists a game. fuck them all!
