10 Reasons Why I Am Rooting For the Lakers In The Finals

Not really…but you didn’t list any other poll reason for the Celtics to take it over the Lakers. Normally I’m on the other side (if they were good enough to beat us they should take it all the way, and like you said…if it wasn’t for those meddlin’ kids…) – but this time I feel like seeing a close game leaning toward the east. Plus Simmons is more fun to read when he’s in a good mood. ;P

If the Suns aren’t in it, I see no point in watching. Yes, the Celtics facing the Lakers means we will be getting good basketball entertainment, but when the team you’re devoted to gets knocked out when they were so close to the big stage, I just want to wait till next season before changing the channel to an NBA game.

For those reasons – mostly to get Kobe’s belly full so he won’t be so damn focused next year, and secondly because he’s just been so great. I mean, he really had the BEST shooting series of HIS ENTIRE CAREER by a wide margin against us. least he could do is back it up with more against the Celtics… and then fade away. Hes like 98 in basketball years. has to drop off sometime, no?

My eyes and heart hurt.

I am from Denver and am a Nash era Suns fan, so I don’t have the hatred towards the Lakers going back decades. I also think Kobe is amazing and what he did game 6 was incredible. Every time the Suns would get it to 1pt or less, he’d turn it on.

I will also root for the Lakers, for the reasons above. Most notably #1. You don’t want to lose to the 2nd place team.

i don’t know where i heard it…i don’t know why it fits…don’t even really understand it……
but KG is an Ass Hat. no Sir I don’t like the C’s, shit talken rondo, drama queen PP,
this dip shit… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFbYU1xpR9Q&feature=related .
don’t feel like seeing that sqaud take it all. but can i really bring myself to root for the lakers…

Hates them both.
The good thing is, somebody I hate will lose.
The bad thing is, somebody I hate will win.

     Being a master rationalizer, I will see who wins, rationalize some poor excuse to see it as a good thing, and blindly cling to it until next year.
I hope there is a massive brawl, and everybody gets suspended, and they both have to forfeit, making the Suns the champs. How’s that for rationalization?

1. I have too many friends from Boston to root for the Lakers.
2. I have too many friends who are Lakers fans to root for the Lakers.
3. F the Lakers

I would go Celtics so I can read what Laker “fans” write on the Yahoo! sport comment board

That means I will not watch any games between them. If the Suns, Warriors, Mavericks, Bucks(a healthy Bogut is a must) aren’t included then I’d rather sleep.

this blog is my only source of sports-related stuff since we lost, and yes, that includes ESPN. I won’t watch or care at all until the Finals are over. Lakers-Celtics? Talk about boring AND nauseating.

I’ll be honest, I’m a little disappointed to log on to my corner of comfort (aka BSOTS) and see YET MORE LAKER LOVE. Don’t we get enough of this on ESPN? Can’t we pretend the finals aren’t happening?

ugh. just….ugh.

Blasphemy, Seth, BLASPHEMY! have you completely lost your mind? as far as I’m concerned, no one won. 2010 is the one year in which no team in the NBA won the championship.

Pft. I spit on this finals match-up.

Reason #1 all the way.

Do you really want to be associated with those fickle, loudly self-proclaimed Laker lifers, like Snoop Dogg, who once we’d eliminated them in 06-07, drove up the I-5 to sit in the front row in Oakland, to go watch the Warriors beat the Mavs, just because they didn’t want to feel sad?? During the Nick Van Exel years, even Jack abandoned them, and went to watch the Nets.

The Lakers? Seriously I feel a little disgusted, to be honest..

If you support a team, you take your lumps and continue to support them when they lose, however badly. You don’t ever root for anyone else, except the enemy of your enemy. Otherwise victory is cheap and without meaning when it does come.

Hell, if it came down to a game between the Beast and the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse Allstars vs the Lakers, to save the world if the Lakers win, I’d still be rooting for pestilence and rivers of fire.. or in this case, the Celtics.

based on these comments I am going to shelve the retrospective I was planning on Kobe’s shot-making ability in the WCF…

j/k

I hear you all and I get it….Lakers = bad and nothing else matters. We will just move right along and focus on bringing peace to the East Coach and West Coast rappers w/o causing any more blood to be spilled

make me ill. The whole LA bullshit scene, Jack, all the phony celebs hanging at the game, all in there weak ass pant suits made out of velcro. Phil Jackson has rode the coattails of the two greatest players that ever lived. Without Kobe the team is horseshit, without MJ the Bulls are horseshit and Phil is wearing no damn bling.
 Goodness I hope every game goes 7 OT’s and Scalebrine from the Celts hits a 3 from half court to win game 7.
 Screw the Lakers, there is not thing I like about that team, never have, never will.

bizarre

(sorry)

I JUST DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO ANYMORE!!!!! THIS WHOLE NBA FINALS MATCHUP IS TEARING ME APAAAART!!!

They’re the Lakers. Nuff said.

but in fact, he’s a suspected horse rapist..

I’m already on the Celtics bandwagon. Hell with the Lakers.

There are only 2 points that agree with Seth IF AND ONLY IF the Lakers win again.
1. Losing to champs. Sure, only the best shall beat us.
2 It will be another recognition that the West is the best.

BUT I disagree with the last 3:

3. If the Lakers win again that’s gonna be 2 in a row. You know what that means? ONE MORE FOR A 3-PEAT. It’s Phil Jackson’s Legacy. Imagine an unbelievable FOUR 3-PEAT. So hell they’re still be hungry next season.

4. I like KG. He’s agression is just like Amar’e, top dog. I’m disappointed that they won’t meet each other. It will surely be a brawl.

5. Kobe can eat my sh*t for all i care.

So it’s BEAT LA BEAT LA BEAT LA over again

am disapointed in you seth… NO NO NO NO NO NO, NO F***** WAY that I can root for that arrogant bastard and freaking lakers… as for celts, beside grumpy old KG lately, there is no big reason to hate them… maybe rondo for his trash talk on chris paul… and that is all… Doc is fine, Ainge played for us, big baby is kind of funny..

please seth, say you didn’t mean it!!!!

I hate the Lakers and forever will. I will never root for them,

for me is frustrating, Lakers/Celtics/Spurs/Bulls have won 23 of the last 30 championships, and the Pistons won 3 times in that time frame. It seems that it is always the Spurs or Lakers and it is enough.
 Screw the Lakers.

will be even better next year than this year (assuming Nash is on the court in the playoffs), which means we can make the Finals and win it. The Lakers will not get better, and the other teams will not improve significantly more than the Suns.

This kind of post is sad, because we should be posting previews of the Finals right now, asking ourselves who will play better – KG or Amare?

Especially Vujacic and Artest..

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/-Thin-chested-Lakers-get-50-a-charge?urn=nba,245179

Because I hate the Lakers more.

I don’t care for the Celtics either, but they aren’t LA.

nothing and no one to cheer for

no reason to watch

so i voted for a bizarre complete cancellation

all would share the misery

: – )

I’m a Suns fan more than a basketball fan. If there was some kind of underdog to root for I would watch, but to see either the Lakers or Celtics get crowned champions for the umpteenth time? I’d rather watch a documentary on Manu Ginobili’s nose.

I disagree. I’ll use your list as a start.

1. Okay, I’m fine with this. Better to lose to the champs than to lose to the chumps who come in second.

2. My dislike of this particular in conference rival FAR (farfarfar!) outweighs any desire I have to see the conference do well.

3. No way Kobe loses his hunger. No matter what he says, it’s not just about the team. He wants to be the greatest of all time, and to do that, he needs to not only equal Jordan’s accomplishments, he needs to demolish them. Kobe is nothing if not driven. As for the rest of the team, who cares? They’d be too afraid of Kobe to not play hard.

4. Kobe is one of my most hated players of all time. So whether or not I like KG is irrelevant. Add to that, the fact that Artest is on that list too and that I think Phil Jackson is the most overrated coach in the league, I’m going to have to disagree.

5. See #4.

So, even though it does pain me to say it (Boston is in my list of teams I don’t like), go Celtics. Beat LA!

In the end, it’s like presidential elections. I don’t root/vote for the one I want to win, I root/vote againstthe one I want to lose.

so we have lot of lakers cheerleaders from US Airways center here…

I guess we should accummulate all other answers agianst first one…82-28 for celtics, that sure looks better…

WHY?!

…in ‘07, and I’m still bitter… so fcuk the Lakers… Go Celtics…