What Kind of Fan are You in Times of Laker Crisis?

Michael Goldsholl
10 Min Read

Irrationality at its peak. The Lakers are playing Orlando and with Dwight Howard on their tail, Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol have off-nights. This fan’s reaction? “It’s time to clean house! Gasol and Bynum are garbage, let’s trade them immediately, and get some young, fresh legs!” Then, later that week, when Gasol goes off for 30 and Bynum pulls down 18 rebounds, they have moved on to demanding a trade that replaces Derek Fisher with Mario Chalmers, because Chalmers can hit 3-pointers…

This person was probably one of the hundreds of thousands of people in support of trading Andrew Bynum AND Lamar Odom for Jermaine O’Neal back in 2006. Now, they remain silent in that regard, but since the Pau Gasol heist, they believe anyone can be had for anything.

To them, trading Luke Walton and Derrick Caracter for Carmelo Anthony would have been a fair trade for both sides.

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Michael Goldsholl is a junior English major at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Calif. Follow him on Twitter @PURPLEGOLDsholl