Down Goes the Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers have fallen into the abyss of NBA mediocrity and there is no escape for them anytime soon. Dwight Howard has opted to leave the Lakers for the Houston Rockets, a team that had so much more to offer the superstar. The Rockets had the youthful tandem of Jeremy Lin and James Harden to help seduce Howard. They also had cap room to possibly make another deal; bottom line is they had flexibility that the Lakers could only dream of.

"It's just me and you now kid." Photo from Kobe Bryant's Instagram 

The Lakers are paying the consequences for feeling like they could buy their way to a championship. The team has no up and coming talent, no legitimate role players, and even no Kobe Bryant. Who is still recovering from an Achilles tendon injury, so why would Howard choose to stay? The Lakers also infamously passed on re-hiring Phil Jackson about a year ago; a decision that is still haunting the team this day. Jackson could have eventually motivated Howard to stay with the Lakers....

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