Roaring start - Lakers come out firing, hold off Nets in Game 1

CNN ^ | 06/05/2002 | AP

[scottiewottie]

The finals were already played. I am watching old NBA all stars play Trenton's adult evening High School team.

[SoCal Pubbie]

"The two Lakers fans drove to Sacramento, after they bought two ten dollar tickets to view the game on the big screen in the Staples Center!"

I can top that one. You know the expression "There's no tomorrow"? That comes from the Lakers. Back in the sixties, after another agonizing loss to the Celtics in game seven, Ray Felix, one of the Laker centers before Wilt, tried to console his teammates by saying "Don't worry guys, we'll get them tomorrow".

A perturbed Hot Rod Huntley snapped back, "You idiot, there is no tomorrow"!

BTW did those Sacramento fans get good seats for the finals?

[scottiewottie]

I think you mean Lakers fans?

They sat in the Budwieser tent in the parking lot, with a few hundred Kings fans that could not buy tickets.

Penny Marshall, who can't decide whether she is a Lakers or Kings fan, loved game seven! She was disappointed though that the Kings chose that game to totally defeat themselves. As were most Kings fans.

But, it is a learning process. Kings learned a lot this year, they will be there again next year and we will see if this loss made them strong.

[SoCal Pubbie]

No, I meant KINGS! Just wondering if they're enjoying the view.

[scottiewottie]

The Lakers/Kings series was the finals.

The slogan up here in Cow Town is, "beetle hay!".

[SoCal Pubbie]

Beautiful, LA gets the NBA Allstar Game in '04!

[scottiewottie]

Let's just say that here in Nocal we don't have a two dollar per ticket surcharge for "burning down the town after the games are over".

STAPLES.... roaring flames outside after the games are over?... yeah we got that!

[SoCal Pubbie]

Please, give me a break. I got two words for you.. Raider's fans!

[scottiewottie]

I think Sacramento gets paved roads in '04. But we would like to keep that a secret, we don't need LA cars stinking up the place.

[monkey]

The Lakers also were the more aggressive rebounders and the more accurate free throw shooters -- two huge intangibles...

Interesting use of the word "intangible".

[scottiewottie]

Give Al Davis two years, and you get the Raider's back.

The only paying customers in Oakland are about 200 fans from Sacramento who, since we got electricity just two years ago, never noticed that they left!

[L.N. Smithee]

Jealous? Another reason for bias.

No, I am not "jealous" of the Lakers. Let's try this again, and this time, pay attention:

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I was rooting for the Kings not only because I have despised the Lakers ever since I became a Warriors fan, but because they -- like the Yankees of the past decade -- are heralded as conquerors before they have earned the distinction. Even if they turn out to be right, it is profound[ly] disrespectful to the other competitors to suggest that they shouldn't even bother playing. And here you are, singing "We Are The Champions" before game 2 of the Finals. Typical.

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Fans like you make it all the more enjoyable, when we win. I love the fact that there are so many people that hate the Lakers, because it means the focus will always be on them.

"...the focus will always be on them?" What's it to you? Are you a Laker?

I quite frankly don't understand fans like you. Are you one of those people whose self-esteem is wrapped up in whether his/her team wins or loses? You said you pity me -- I have a feeling I should pity you.

[L.N. Smithee]

Did you in the Bible it says to speak what you want as if you have it, before you get it?

No, the Bible doesn't say that. And God doesn't care who wins ball games.