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My new favorite anti Laker argument

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M Dogg™:
Celtic fans have been posting on the LA Times lately that the Laker's first 5 title's don't count because they happened in Minneapolis. LOL. Growing up in California, we always counted those titles, and then when I moved to Minnesota, they don't count those titles to the T-Wolve. In Staples Center, they have a banner honoring those great Lakers team, in Minneapolis they have a statue of George Mikan but no banners honoring the Minneapolis Lakers, but no banners. So my conclusion is that the Lakers titles belong to the Lakers, and not Minneapolis.

17 titles to 15 titles.

7even:
The Los Angeles Lakers have won 10 titles.
The Boston Celtics have won 17 titles.
The Lakers have won 15 titles.
The Celtics have won 17 titles.

Furor Teutonicus:
lmao @ moving clubs to other cities. That's the most ridiculous thing about US sport.

7even:

--- Quote from: still not decided on May 31, 2010, 02:02:16 PM ---lmao @ moving clubs to other cities. That's the most ridiculous thing about US sport.

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niggas take capitalism to another level

just ask remedy or any previous sonics fan how they felt when their franchise basically got sold to oklahoma :D

M Dogg™:
Yeah, people up here are still mad at the Lakers, but then again no one went to the games in between Mikan and Baylor. In the 58 season, the Lakers lost over 50 games, and so even after the Lakers drafted Elgin Baylor, no one went to the games. Baylor lead the Minneapolis Lakers to the NBA Finals in his rookie year (to lost to who else, the Celtics), and the Lakers played one more year before moving to LA. Just before they moved to LA, they drafted Jerry West. Can you think of Baylor and West in Minneapolis, it would have been crazy, and the Lakers never would have moved. BUT, since no one went to the games, and the fans in Minnesota don't know how to weather rebuilding years, (people here piss and moan all the time at the thought of a rebuilding year, or drafting youth to lead into the future) the Lakers had to go to a place that was profitable. Since then, the Lakers are very typical of LA. Los Angeles is a place of transplants across the nation. Millions travel to LA to fulfill their dreams, enjoy better weather and to make it in the sunshine. The Lakers are very much LA, just like the Dodgers. Both came from other places to do better in California.

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