4/18/2023 0 Comments Nba most embarrassing momentsThe Athletic: Think your team is shorthanded? The bad-luck 2013-14 Lakers have a story for youĮven after the producing prevailing comic tableau of the night, the Lakers’ sorry situation took a turn for the bizarrely unfortunate, as Jordan Farmar exited the game with a calf injury, and Kaman fouled out in the early fourth-quarter having played just 17 minutes, leaving the Lakers with exactly five remaining eligible players.Īfter earning his own sixth personal foul with three-and-a-half minutes remaining, Robert Sacre’s disqualification left the Lakers with four eligible players. ![]() Joined on the pine by just one other Laker, Kaman had plenty of room to rest up before his final stint. An injury to Nick Young kept him out of the second half, and with five fouls before the end of the third quarter, Chris Kaman was forced to sit for the remainder of the period. With Pau Gasol, Jodie Meeks, Jordan Hill, and Steve Nash all battling injury, only eight players suited up to play.Īs was typical of the early-twenty-teens Lakers, bad quickly turned to worse. At 17-32, the Lakers had lost seven straight games and entered the unanticipated road contest extremely shorthanded. Entering the February 5th game, the Lakers had stumbled through the doldrums of the pre-All-Star break NBA schedule - when the excitement of a new season has long worn off, but scores of games still stand before the finish line. Still reeling from Kobe Bryant’s injury and Dwight Howard’s departure, the Lakers headed to Cleveland to face an equally hapless Cavaliers team. The sudden, public groveling from the storied franchise was a sign of organizational desperation, and a harbinger of the mediocrity to come. Dwight’s first departure from Los Angeles became the first of many dominos to fall in a run of Laker ineptitude stemming from a disastrous 2012-13 campaign defined by more head coaches (three) than playoff victories (zero). ![]() Instead of remaining in Los Angeles, D12 struck a deal with Daryl Morey to and eschew state income tax and play with the Rockets’ burgeoning young superstar, James Harden. On Hollywood Boulevard /YZPJhqnvfs (via #NBA- Davide Chinellato June 26, 2013 #Lakers asking Dwight Howard to stay via billboard. Their best chance at remain reasonably competitive in the coming seasons was to retain their best semi-healthy player in Dwight Howard.īut as he stepped away to weigh his options, the Lakers unveiled a series of cringeworthy billboards meant to cajole Dwight into re-upping with the team. At the time, the Lakers were stuck with a hobbled, aging core of Nash, Kobe, and Pau and bereft of high-upside young players upon with to place the burden of the team’s future. The eventual Western Conference champion Spurs sweep the Lakers in four straight gamesįollowing their mercifully expedient playoff exit, Dwight Howard’s impending unrestricted free agency decision remained murky.Kobe Bryant tears his Achilles tendon in the season’s 80th game, crippling the team’s chances of mounting a late-season charge.Mike D’Antoni replaces interim head coach Bernie Bickerstaff, leading the Lakers to seventh place in the West.Mike Brown’s Princeton Offense fails, leading to his dismissal after four losses in five games to start the year.Steve Nash breaks his leg in the preseason, missing seven weeks, and is unable to return to All-Star-caliber play.For those of you fortunate enough to have erased this miserable season from your memories, here’s a brief refresher of the low-lights: “STAY.”ĭespite entering the season as prohibitive favorites to win the West - and perhaps, more importantly, a game-breakingly dominant team to play as in NBA 2K13 - the 2012-13 Steve Nash-Dwight Howard-Kobe Bryant Lakers came to be defined by a series of unmitigated disasters. In chronological order, these are the five most embarrassing moments of the Lakers’ past decade: 1. ![]() It’s easier to appreciate how good you have it when you remember how bad things have been. Now, with the days of unmatched ineptitude (hopefully) in the organization’s past, these foibles serve as reminders of the NBA’s fickle nature, and the massive gains the franchise has made in its process and results. These miserable seasons were marked by a series of gaffes and fumbles of such an embarrassing nature it would have been impossible to imagine them coming from the prestigious purple and gold just a few seasons prior. ![]() In the five years between Kobe Bryant’s Achilles injury and LeBron James’ deliverance, however, the Lakers failed to even make the playoffs once, winning just 126 of 410 games, fewer than any other NBA franchise. Over the past two seasons, Lakers Exceptionalists around the world have again been spoiled by a sudden return to glory more commonly experienced during the first half of this millennium.
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