May 13, 2004
Unscriptable
LA�S incredibly wacky season has turned heads, and has everyone wanting their piece of the pie
The Lakers have been swamped. Confusion has been the definition of their injury/controversial/bizarre season, in which nothing has seemed to click or everything happens at once. Rome wasn�t built in a day but yet the Lakers can build and destroy a dynasty in minutes. Its like a product you could get at Wal-Mart: InstaDynasty. One minute they�re the best freaking team you�ve ever seen, and the next their backs are to the wall. They fall apart and drown like someone caught in the brutal hurdle of oncoming quicksand. Only to regain their footing and put astounding numbers unmatched by any team that dares to get in their path. What�s up with the hype? It�s just another basketball team, yet for some reason they have all the magazine covers, all the radio shows, all the media wants is LA and their LALA land of a story. 4 future hall of famers, 4 bickering people, one zen master .. Ok coach and it creates a big fat mess. Common logic cant sort this one out. You can say they�ll stink because of two many players wanting the rock, that they had always coveted throughout their storied professional lives or you could quietly, slowly, crisply mumble that nothing they do makes sense, and maybe that�s why throughout their ups , downs, ins-outs, we�ve wanted in. We�ve wanted no part of the other bystanders that also take up more then just space. Cause for some reason this is more then a story, more then a headline, its just a saga. Is it the end of an era, the beginning of a new chapter, we won�t know for some time. So why do we care so much? Probably, because no story in sports is as brilliantly screwed up as this one. It�s like a 12 round boxing bout only they�re no breaks, no intentions to drill your opponent in the head, or that�s what you perceive, yet you do it anyway. It�s just another team. Stories in Minnesota, Miami, heck Indiana are more inspiring. Yet, we stick to this old gum stick, chew it till all its flavor has evaporated into nothing at all, till there�s nothing left to argue, debate, throw out the window, cover till the wall�s paint has cracked, rotted, completely been destroyed. We�re throwing crap against the wall and while it sticks, it slips, and maybe that�s what makes LA�s soap opera that much more fun. Heck, Friends, Frasier, even Sex in the City took their fair-wells. Those were funny, this was well hard to explain, it never made all that much sense. And after a year of hype, LA prepares to take it�s final bow the script isn�t complete. And though just like every year, someone will win and everyone else will lose, we still care that much more then we ever really have before. Yet by the end of another season everything will go on, life will continue to occur, and the only thing left in the dust will be LA, or maybe that�s just a thought. Welcome to LALA Land
-sj |
