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By: Dukemich

Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher earn their fourth ring. Phil Jackson gets his tenth ring. The Lakers redeemed the mistakes of the previous season and win the franchises fifteenth ring in 30 finals appearances. I haven’t heard much from Charles Barkley lately(if you don’t understand this look to my previous blog about Charles Barkley and the TNT panel). The Lakers deserved it and were the best team in the NBA this season. They took the western conference’s best shot. They beat the eastern conference’s best teams by sweeping the Cavs and the Celtics in the regular season and beating the Magic in the finals. Kobe finally won without Shaq. Lamar Odom silenced his critics at least for a little while. Pau Gasol proved that he is not a soft player. Fisher proved that he could come up big at the age of 34. Trevor Ariza proved that he would have been a tremendous help last year if he wasn’t injured. He also stuck it to the Magic who let him go. The Lakers had a great season and proved all the critics wrong.

Now I will not predict what is going to happen next year because analysts always choose the team that won the previous season to win the next year. All I will say is that if the Lakers resign Odom and Ariza they will be tough to beat and should make a run next year. However, they do have other issues that they need to address. The Lakers cannot stop point guards on any team and they don’t have a back-up center. Actually Bynum isn’t even a solid starting center. Maybe they should trade for Shaq(that would be interesting).