I'll take the Laker's foursome. The Lakers are going to be incredible next year. Read this and think about adding Bynum to the mix:
With Pau on the floor, the Lakers are 30-6 (including the postseason); in regular-season games they were 21-4 with a +10.7 scoring margin.
Plug the regular-season results with Gasol into the formula and prorate it over 82 games, and you get a 69-win team with a scoring margin that dwarfs that of the three champion teams. Suddenly, the statement that this is Kobe's best team doesn't seem so preposterous.
In fact, once we plug those numbers in for the regular season, the Kobe-Pau Lakers are already ahead of two of the three champions and closing in on the third.
Furthermore, if they were to manage to play out the best-case scenario, the Kobe-Pau Lakers would rank second overall, behind only the 1996 Chicago Bulls among all teams in the past 31 seasons, beating out not only all of Shaq's championship teams, but all of Magic's, too.
With Pau on the floor, the Lakers are 30-6 (including the postseason); in regular-season games they were 21-4 with a +10.7 scoring margin.
Plug the regular-season results with Gasol into the formula and prorate it over 82 games, and you get a 69-win team with a scoring margin that dwarfs that of the three champion teams. Suddenly, the statement that this is Kobe's best team doesn't seem so preposterous.
In fact, once we plug those numbers in for the regular season, the Kobe-Pau Lakers are already ahead of two of the three champions and closing in on the third.
Furthermore, if they were to manage to play out the best-case scenario, the Kobe-Pau Lakers would rank second overall, behind only the 1996 Chicago Bulls among all teams in the past 31 seasons, beating out not only all of Shaq's championship teams, but all of Magic's, too.
