Is it true? Could the difference between a third consecutive championship and a June playoff-exit, for the Los Angeles Lakers, be the non-signing of the three time former Finals MVP award recipient, Shaquille O'Neal?
It actually could be...
Right now the Los Angeles Lakers are sitting pretty at 9-2 in the Western Conference. But there are some dark clouds just over the horizon for Phil Jackson's bunch.
The 37-year-old Theo Ratliff is out for six weeks after undergoing successful arthroscopic knee surgery. That may not seem like a long time. And Ratliff's eight minutes per-outing may not seem like such an enormous void that the Lakers need to fill. But it is.
Pau Gasol is averaging 39.2 minutes per-game through the first eleven games this season. In each of the last three games, he has played over 41 minutes—two of which were Lakers' losses.
With Andrew Bynum's status never certain, it is essential that Jerry Buss finds some help inside for his star big man who has arguably been the most valuable Laker so far through the young season. He will not ...
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