Lakers Have Cemented Sports Fans Everywhere

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The most hated team in America? According to Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle, it's the Lakers.

Ostler wrote that the Lakers have inspired and united all of America.
"When the Lakers sputtered, fizzled and dropped off the radar screen, Idaho potato farmers high-fived New York stockbrokers, who chest-bumped New Orleans jazz musicians.

"The Lakers were a team all America could get behind not getting behind."

But what about the New York Yankees?

"Compared to the Lakers, the Yankees are beloved," Ostler wrote.</div>

One Laker supporter: OK, maybe not everyone outside L.A. hates the Lakers. Here's what Detroit Piston Coach Larry Brown had to say about Kobe Bryant on Fox Sports radio:

"He's one of the special players in our league and loves to play. This poor kid has been hung out to dry with all the stuff that's gone on this season and I feel terrible for him."

Of the Lakers, Brown said, "That's a team that is going to be good and they are going to get a great coach and I think Kobe is going to have his best year next year."

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