2007:  Our Off-Season of Discontent

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As Lakers fans, we have been witnesses to many fantastic runs of awesome basketball, but given all of the news reports of player-management turmoil this summer, some perspective is in order.

These runs of greatness have always been followed by a few years of mediocrity.  Usually these mediocre years have followed the retirement or other departure of the all or part of nucleus of the team.

It should not be a surprise that the Lakers teams of the past couple of seasons have struggled to play Championship caliber ball, if history is any indicator of the future...

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In a strange and dramatic twist of fate, Derek Fisher is once again a Laker.  On July 20th, Fisher signed a contract of undisclosed terms to rejoin the team on which he became a three-time NBA champion.  Fisher was not just a piece of the Championship puzzle from 2000-2002, he was one of the key pieces.

We would go so far as to speculate that had he stayed with the Lakers all of these years instead of signing first with Golden State and then with the Utah Jazz, the Lakers transition after the departures of Shaquille O'Neal and Phil Jackson likely would have been smoother and less painful.

The Lakers should not have let him get away.  The Lakers never should never have made him feel like it was right for him to leave.  We Lakers fans cannot blame Fisher for leaving in the first place...

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