LA Times · Jul 27, 2018
Letters: This Lakers season will be unpredictable, at best
Opening night: Lakers fans give LeBron James a 10-minute standing ovation. Lakers lose game. Luke Walton says it will take time for team chemistry to kick in.
Lakers become the eighth seed and are promptly swept by Houston in the first round of the playoffs. Ty Lue is fired. So is Magic Johnson. And Rob Pilenka.
Great series on 1968, but most would say the Lakers lost the 1968-69 championship, because coach Butch van Breda Kolff refused to put Wilt back in the fourth quarter of Game 7, not due to the Big Dipper’s injury.
So Dan Woike thinks that the trade that sent Bill Russell to the Celtics was “comically absurd.” Too bad Dan doesn’t know what he’s talking about.