The Los Angeles Lakers (otherwise known as The Lake Blow instead of The Lake Show) are built to win now. Possibly now. Hopefully not. Definitely built to win a few years ago. Maybe built to win next year. Beyond that: not so much. When you bring in a 38-year-old point guard (39 in February) to complement your 34-year-old franchise player – no matter how improbably that point guard seems to defy aging – you are playing for the present, even if you acquire a 26-year-old superstar (read: still-maturing, indecisive, femininely with a masculine facade) center for good measure. If the Lakers don’t win a title in the next two years, when Steve Nash will be 40 and Kobe might retire, the team’s off-season bonanza will be a failure. And the bad news for the Lakers:
It’s going to be damn hard to win a title over the next two years, brahs:
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