Wow, worst Lakers season of my lifetime

David Stern will somehow find a way to come out of retirement to get the Lakers to win the draft lottery in June.

Told you. Stop signing grandpas.

I think Chris Paul's agent told Stern he wanted to go to a playoff team in Los Angeles.

The Lakers were not going to be a playoff team with or without Paul.

Lakers wouldn't have even been .500 with Chris Paul this season.

They are complete ass.  That fan base deserves it too... here's to over 100 straight seasons of no-titles going forward.  The Cubs of the NBA!  Worst fans around.

Just a few days removed from Sterlings BS comments about Magic, Magic follows up with "Happy days are here again. D'Antoni resigns as Lakers coach. I couldn't be happier" 

You stay classy Ervin!

They got rid of the wrong guy.

White coach gone = Magic Happy.

If they want to rebuild that mess they should pull a Thompson and trade their face of the franchise in Kobe... rebuild.

The problem is that given his salary and age and recent injury history who in their right mind would trade for Kobe?

The real issue is that the Buss family might be loaded but they are buffoons when it comes to making good personnel decisions. 

Still, I just have this sick to my stomach feeling that somehow, someway, they are going to win the draft lottery.  The NBA certainly doesn't want to see the Lakers in the tank for too long.

So, how does the lottery probabilities work?  Lakers should have as good a chance at the first pick as anyone. 

are you an idiot

Did an idiot write that post? dammit! 

I struggle to fully comprehend how moronic the above post is.   Is the author, mental capacity aside, attempting to state the Lakers should have the same odds as everyone else, like playing powerball and everyone gets one ticket?  I find that hard to believe because the post initially asked about probabilities. 

Perhaps the author doesn't know what the word probability means. 

Maybe by using the word "should" he means the Lakers, final record not considered, are entitled to the same odds as everyone else.  A privilege for being the Lakers possibly.  His sense of fairness dictates that when his team is out of the playoffs, that only an equal chance at the top pick satisfies his heightened sense of fairness. 

Or the author is a moron. 

I do not attempt to attack the poster instead of the post, but I think the ambiguity of the post forces my hand in this instance. 

I do concede that my question doesn't really get us very far either.  I've not meet many confirmed idiots who could answer that question in the affirmative. 

I hope it's not lost on Silver that the first round of the playoffs were great, they are relevant, ratings seemed to be strong, and they didn't include the Lakers, Celtics, or Knicks. 

attack the post...not the poster

And amazingly the refs seemed to stay out of it. The result. Record viewers. Want to challenge the NFL? Give every team a chance.

Except the Lakers. Just like the NFL, no team in LA.

Yes, I know the Clippers are there but until like last week when the racist owner had a little chat with his skank girlfriend no one really considered them much. Like the Jets in NY.

It's May 9th...

and the Lakers are still a bucket of ****.

The NBA is a stars driven league.  It just so happens that a guy like Durant plays for a small market team because they drafted him but there's still a lot of Jordan and Magic and Ewing and Bird history to overcome.

Don't think for a second that the NBA didn't like the fact that LeBron and Wade joined forces and took their talents to South Beach.  The only thing better was if they both went to New York or LA. 

Chicago has hit a stretch of bad luck and Boston and Philly have fallen off but the NBA has always tried to prop up the teams in the big markets because those teams have larger media markets and move the dial with ratings.  

Lakers pick OSU's Russell at No. 2. West Pacific Division teams oughta be looking for Josh Gasser's number.

— Wisconsin Basketball (@BadgerMBB) June 25, 2015

Well, team chemistry will certainly improve.

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/...s/?intcmp=latestnews

The now-deleted post by Larry Nance Jr., who was selected by Los Angeles with the 27th overall pick in the NBA Draft, was widely shared on social media.

"Gee I sure hope Kobe can keep his hands to himself in Denver this time.." Nance tweeted on May 1, 2012, adding the hashtag "rapist."

His hands were not the problem....

Lakers home games will be an empty houses for years to come. LA fans only go to games when they can boast how good the team is.

I'm wishing the NBA would see the game itself is bigger than the stars. People love the game. Call traveling, always. Call all the fouls, not just some of them. That's probably my biggest issue, the star treatment which ignores the rules of the game. 

As for the Lakers, they took a dip but they'll rebound. Kobe has transformed from super star to problem child. Should be interesting to see how that shakes out. Not many players wanting to play with him.