Comments on: Lakers I Miss: Rick Fox

By: Jon Saur

Jon Saur — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:20:15 +0000

Th Fox-Christie fight didn’t foreshadow the Western Conference Finals 7-game series! The Fox-Christie fight happened months AFTER that series. Look it up if you don’t believe me.

By: Joe Mendoza

Joe Mendoza — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:20:13 +0000

Rick Fox, Ron Harper, Horace Grant, George,Glen Rice, Brian Shaw, and big shot Bob. Thanks.

By: '60 Fan

'60 Fan — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:05:17 +0000

I’ve been a Laker fan since they first arrived in LA… Suffered through all the C’s losses. Had the privledge of attending many games at the Forum.
I’ve seen all the great players that have passed through, and without naming them all, Rick was one of my fav’s, I really enjoyed his game and attitude. I’m with Magic, a 3 peat is there, I can’t wait.

By: J-M

J-M — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:33:43 +0000

#62 Philip, thanks. Reaffirms my decision to not pay to read crap like that.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:55:36 +0000

Magic Days (64)
The question was who is the biggest loser(s). The Lakers went from giant favorite to win a championship to now not favored at all. There is only one winner in the NBA and that is the last team standing. There was really no other team that could really compete with the Lakers heading into this year until the Heat got lucky by signing 3 of the top 10 players in the NBA and arguably the top 2 players next season in Lebron and Wade (I mean Wade and Kobe were almost even last year and now Kobe is a year older and with another knee surgery under his belt). So… only one team dropped from favorite to win it all again to now favorite to lose to the Heat in the Finals and that is our Lakers. So… yes… I feel the Lakers are the biggest Losers behind maybe the Cavs the second Lebron decided to for a dream team in Miami.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:38:21 +0000

Great story.

Fox was great!

I loved it when he mixed it up with Doug Christie.

We miss you fox!

Mike

By: P. Ami

P. Ami — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:56:54 +0000

GoldiFox first… Nobody, and I mean not even AC, rocked the curls like Foxy. The fight with Christie was definitely during the preseason after the 2002 7-gamer. Another fact I’ve not seen brought up is that Fox dropped about 30 lbs. just before the 01-02 season and could suddenly dunk again and his foot-speed caught up with his smarts again. Everything, for the few years before that, was all layups. Great hands too. I still use that swipe down at the ball and my man is bringing his ball up for a turn-around J. Boom!!! All ball.

On Hollinger, dude has his stats and he runs with them. It’s like Vegas. They have their methods and they run with it. The difference is that Hollinger hasn’t picked the winner for a few seasons now. I say the Lakers make his system looked flawed again.

Lakers again in ’11.

By: magic days

magic days — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:43:53 +0000

63. That is ridiculous reasoning. By your logic and hollinger’s logic, every team that is not the Heat is a loser. Why do we even bother to play the games or deal with the long season. Let’s just give the rings to the ringwraths. Let’s not even bother with the nba for the next, say 5 yrs. Let’s just annoint them champions for 5 yrs and move on.

it’s just like everyone annointing James and the Cavs as chip winners the last to seasons to only see them eliminated in the playoffs. Please. That’s not news.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:14:57 +0000

Phillip,
What did Hollinger say that was wrong? Who was hurt this offseason the most? Maybe the Cavs? But they weren’t going to to win a championship anyways. The Lakers only measure success by championships. Even though we improved this offseason… if another team like the Heat acquired so much talent that now Vegas favors them over us to win a ring next season than this is the worst offseason the Lakers have had since Shaq left no? I live in LA like most of you… and the only city that was almost as pissed as CLE was Los Angeles when Lebron made his “decision.” I know I was almost as disappointed as when we lost to Boston a couple years ago in the Finals. Because basketball fans know half of winning is who you are as a team and half of winning is who the other team is as a team. Last year we were the most talented and best team in the NBA. Next year we will have more talent and be even better. But winning and losing has everything to do with comparing yourself to someone else. And if the Heat went from being around the 18th best team in terms of talent to most likely the most talented team heading into next season bumping us to #2 doesn’t that make us the 1st loser? Vegas isn’t wrong too often… they have the smartest basketball minds in the business. They are the ones with all the money on the line. Its hard to argue that the Heat aren’t now the favorites heading into next season. Hollinger wasn’t trying to rile up Lakers fans. He was reporting the news.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:03:03 +0000

New post up:

http://www.forumblueandgold.com/2010/07/27/fast-break-thoughts-69/

RE: J-M #52

I’ll stay away from Hollinger’s latest column. He writes that the Lakers have done no wrong this offseason and have upgraded from last year’s roster, but are losers because Miami added LBJ and Bosh. That was the crux of the Lakers section of his column.

Lets try not to get into Hollinger discussion. I was merely sharing information that isn’t available to everyone. Let’s just all agree that his idea is ridiculous and really mean nothing as far as this Lakers off season is concerned.

Thanks,

Phillip