From: nates@ll.mit.edu ( Nate Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.pro
Subject: Re: La Lakers
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:04:06 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

In article <1habubINNr1@news.aero.org> robert@aero.org (R. S. Statsinger) writes:
>nate smith (me) wrote:
>|if you had asked me who might best represent Laker-like spirit, i
>|would have said A.C.Green, easy.  Worthy has no apologies to make
>|in that regard in my opinion either.  that Chick could place Byron
>|ahead of them is 1) curious, and 2) taken with a grain of salt here.
>
>COMPLETE AGREEMENT. My complaint with the previous poster was not
>so much that he ranked Byron ahead of Green & Worthy in "Laker Spirit",
>(which of course in and of itself is ridiculous), but because his only
>basis for the statement was, "Well, Chick said so...."

>|you [might] care to enlighten the rest of us who dont see the daily
>|ins and outs of the Lakers and cant form the "proper" conclusion.
>
>Read all of my postings in the last few weeks. It's pretty much
>all there.........
>
>			R.S.
>			(lakers in two)	
  no no -  in 3, in 3....

okay.  you say "ridiculous".  thanks.  maybe i should explain where
i was coming from.  in the boston area we dont see Laker games often
and i never get a chance to hear chick call a game.  i'd like to
sometime.  i also dont get a chance to read the daily newspapers and
stay even with all the gossip.  for example, in the boston area, we
were fed, in varying degrees of soap-opera sillyness, that kevin
mchale and larry bird didnt like each other.  we were forming a strange
array of conclusions about the actual situation and the also the
various reporter's reputations.  i dont imagine this was widely known.*
also, despite the necessity of a thick and complex customized filter,
we also picked up info about the celtics from the Great Johnny Most,
who actually was a better announcer in his time than given credit for.

now...byron scott - we over here knew he was having troubles over
there.  but the best info i got about it was from this newsgroup.  not
the newspapers here.  now if a chick hearn says something like that,
no matter how strange it sounds, i have to reserve some room for the
possibility that he knows something inside and i just never heard it
before.  hey, truth is stranger than fiction, right?  so hearing you
say "ridiculous" is what i'm looking for - not some bashing of a
person you never met - you dont know how long he's been a laker fan -
say i moved to LA this summer and heard chick hearn say that - ok,
i'd be skeptical, but who knows?

ed lor.  we should get a list of ed lor's Best Lakers Ever!!  :-)

maybe we could get a new thread - what happened to that Best of the
Team thread?  we could add "the guys that best represent what it
means to be a True __________(fill in you team name here)".

although kareem makes my Best Laker Spirit list, its with a note
that he could've done better.  guys that make my laker list also
include magic, west, baylor, a.c., and worthy, etc.  wilt does not
make my list, if you've been following my other thread.  scott?
well...that is where i am just plain Uninformed enough.  probably
not.  rambis? yes.  mcadoo? no.  and i wish we could keep the
Mikan teams separated from the LA teams.....

- nate
(lakers in 3)

* if you want to delve into this more, lets do it in e-mail....