I read a friend's away message and it said "go lakers". My immediate reaction was, this particular friend has gone crazy. This friend is not from California, so has very little if any connection to the lakers. Why would anyone want to root for the lakers? They are the most arrogant team in all of professional sports, only playing when they feel it is necessary. I can't imagine if the rest of the world worked with the same mentality the lakers do. Imagine going into a restaurant and the chef telling you, "Well, I know I can make the food a hell of a lot better, but i'm just not in the mood tonight. I really went all out a few nights ago, so it would be too much to expect of me to give it my best effor tonight." We would stop patronizing that restaurant, so why this great love for the lakers? Do they actually deserve a championship just because they have hall of famers without rings on their team? Are there any nba players that deserve a championship?

I lost interest in the nba when I noticed the players stoped caring. The game detiorated and it's obvious by how the nba keeps pushing high school players as the "next" jordan. The nba knows its product is crap but still insists that it is the best basketball in the world! Which brings me to the Olympics and the embarassment that will prevail because supposedly our best and most gifted basketball players do not want to play in the Olympics. I understand the fear of terrorism, but if I remember correctly, the President of the US, told the American public, do not fear the terrorists, we will not succumb to the evil people in the world. And the best way to fight the terrorists is to go about your life as your normally would. Are the nba players above the american public, do they feel they are the next targets? I'm the younger players want to play for USA Basketball. Maybe they can get rid of the arrogant, money-grubbing image that the nba players are so quickly to embrace. As much as I hated Lebron James entering the nba, he seems to be a little mature. He plays hard every game and doesn't seem to attract any trouble. Let him, Carmelo, Carlos Boozer be the new face of USA Basketball. They are by far the better role-models than the veteran nba players.

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