LAKERS V CELTICS

The Lakers play the Celtics today in what may be a preview of the NBA Finals. One of my nephew's friends wrote this rant to him after my nephew told him he was slippin' as a Laker fan.


Subject: Re: Kobe

slippin?

i'm a lakers fan, not a kobe bryant fan. i love kobe, but to me the

world does not begin or end with him. i was a lakers fan when we had

ceddy ceballos and nick van exel and eddie jones and kobe was on the

bench. i still love shaq cause i know without him we never would have

won three titles. i will love kobe when he retires cause he continues

the tradition started by george mikan, embodied in jerry west, and

proven with magic. i went to more laker games at the forum than at the

staples center. one of my most prized possessions in life is a ticket

stub from when MJ dropped 38 against the lakers at the forum and we

still won the game back in 1988. i came geared up head to toe in

nike/jordan gear but i never cheered against my team. ive been to five

championship parades, two that my mom pulled me out of class for and

two i left work early for, and one where i told my old boss straight

up i was going to the lakers parade and im taking the morning off. do

u know who bob mcadoo is? do u remember when dunleavy was our coach?

did u know that kurt rambis is married to jerry buss' daughter and

that phil jackson wont marry jerry buss' other daughter? did u know

that rudy garciduenas, the equipment coach started as a ball boy in

his teens and now has one of the coolest jobs in the world? did u know

before the crowd chanted "luuuuuke" and "luuuue" it was "coooooooo"

for mr. high socks? can u name how many lakers in history have worn

the number 4? #21? #1? can u say orlando woolridge? please dont even

try to say im slippin on the lakers just cause i dont know how much

kobe tipped some waitress while makin it rain with diddy. sorry i dont

know that obama said kobe was the best player in the world. maybe i

should have copied u on my email to my coworkers and my boss this

morning that said i had to leave work at 430 on the dot because my

team is playing the celtics at 5PM and i gotta watch it as close to

home base (staples center) as possible. maybe i should take a picture

of the lakers schedule on my desk with 39 black W's written with a

sharpie and 9 L's written with a red pen.



or maybe u shud never say im slippin when it comes to the lakers again...