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Los Angeles Lakers 17 Championships All Count

Los Angeles Lakers Are Most Winning Franchise In NBA History

Some sports talk show hosts question whether the Los Angeles Lakers can count the championships won before the team's move to LA. The short answer is "yes". The Cleveland Lakers and Los Angeles Lakers are the same organization. All championships won by the Cleveland Lakers (the city the team played in before moving to Los Angeles) and Los Angeles Lakers count towards the Lakers total number of NBA Championships.

The NBA Hall of Fame has a member in it named George Mikan who played center for the Lakers and won championships for them while the Lakers played in Cleveland. Kareem Abdul Jabbar is a NBA Hall Of Fame center who won championships for the Lakers while the team played in Los Angeles. Both players are recognized as playing for the same basketball team, the Lakers. The Lakers are seventeen time world champions.

Lakers Didn't Win By Luck In The NBA Bubble

First of all for those who picked the Clippers or Bucks over the Lakers for the 2019-2020 NBA Championship, your picks didn't make it to a point in the playoffs to even play the Lakers. While the Lakers beat each of the teams that knocked your picks out of the playoffs.

It was said that the Lakers would have too hard of a time beating the Trailblazers and then Houston to make it to the Western Conference Finals. The Lakers dispatched each team Western Conference Playoffs team they faced in five games.

The Lakers roster was perfectly built for any playoff team they would face inside or outside the bubble. They had height, speed, experience, toughness, and most of all talent. Their talent started with two of the top 5 players in the NBA, and a bench made up of enough players with talent to step up and fill whatever role was needed depending on the opponent.

 

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Clippers Better Than Lakers Debate Is Over

There is no comparison between the Lakers organization and the Clipper's.

Front office
Lakers signed LBJ as a free agent, traded away young under achieving talent for AD.
Clippers signed Kawhi as a free agent, give away the house to get Paul George.

Coach
Lakers - Frank Vogel builds team chemistry from the 1st game of year, best record in the West, reaches Conference Finals first year as Lakers coach.
Clippers - Doc (usually very good with players) craters to load management, never builds team chemistry, Clippers best team ever can't make it out of the 2nd round of playoffs.

History
Lakers - winningest team in the NBA (through decades), 17 championships (counting the one they will win this year) Conference Finals in every decade since 40's.
Clippers - greatest achievement 1st round playoff champions (there is no award for this).

Roster
Lakers - best player in the league (you know who), best defensive player (again you know), a bench full of role players who know how to step-up because they got in the habit of doing it all year (can you say best record in the west?).
Clippers "deep bench" (yeah right).

Accuracy of "hot takes" for the "Lakers as a dumpster fire" ended when the wrong Buss got ran out the door.

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Every Front Office In The NBA Is Dysfunctional If Their Coaches Don’t Believe LeBron Is A Top 3 NBA Player

When in a recent ESPN Survey Of 20 Coaches not one coach listed Lakers forward LeBron James as a Top 3 player in the NBA. Two of the players listed in the Top 3 have never won a championship or even performed well in the conference finals. Certainly all NBA players are better at basketball than the general population so any list of the top players in the NBA will leave off some great players. Though it would be interesting to see how many coaches in the ESPN survey would choose two out of the top three players they selected over LeBron James to lead their team instead of LeBron in the playoffs.

Now some basketball pundits would separate the regular season from the playoffs and say that LeBron is great in the playoffs but he is not a Top 3 player in the league when you consider the regular season. That's hog wash! The regular season only brings out measured efforts from the top players. The term "load management" has become popular for usage of playing time for NBA players. Even with injuries LeBron hit his career averages during the regular season last year, which averages were better than two of the Top 3 players listed ahead of him on the ESPN coaches survey. So while LeBron's playoff abilities are indisputable his regular season numbers are at Least Top 3 also.

With the 2019-20 Lakers team that will surround him LeBron and the Lakers, will be back in the playoffs, and his playoff performance will be such that no coach who gets knocked out of the playoffs by the Lakers will be saying that they got beat by a team without any Top 3 NBA players on it.  That brings us to the next questionable part of the ESPN coaches survey results where the Lakers were not listed by anyone to come out of the West to play in the NBA Finals. One team listed instead of the Lakers has never been out of the second round of the playoffs. None of the other three teams listed have come out of the West in the last two decades. It's strange that the Lakers with LeBron and Anthony Davis got zero votes among the coaches surveyed.

It's been a foregone conclusion among the media and many NBA front offices around the league that the Lakers are disorganized, if not dysfunctional. But which other front office accomplished as much as the Lakers did in the off season?They had to give up value in order to get Anthony Davis in a trade with a team (and probably the league) that didn't want to see the trade happen. Then when pushed up against the July 6th deadline because of the delay in the trade they couldn't make for Kawhi Leonard they still pulled off signing valuable pieces for their team that, despite what the coaches surveyed said, will be competing for a championship.

Needless to say the Lakers front office is no more dysfunctional than the other NBA team front offices who have coaches that left LeBron James out of the list of the Top 3 players in the league, and who had no votes for the Lakers coming out of the West. The upcoming NBA season should be one for ages. Lots of things will be settled. Can't wait for the NBA season to get started!

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Why Blog For Opinionalism.com To Get Your Point Across

Blogging For Opinionalism.com To Make Your Opinions Known

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