Welcome back to the class room students and today we are
going to get a little perspective on the sports world. What I mean by this Is we
need to start understanding something. In today’s world of Twitter and Face
book, MySpace and Tout. There are more ways to interact with sports stars and
ways to get that message out to as many fans as possible. I will use the
situation in Los Angeles as a starter. They started this offseason wondering
what they had to look forward too. Andrew Bynum
was finally coming into his own. Kobe Bryant only had a couple of years
left and wanted another ring. The Lakers fought hard last season against OKC
but couldn’t come out the victor. Then the offseason came and the amazing
Dwight Howard trade and the new hope for the new season. Mike Brown had all the
pieces necessary as the Lakers also went out and got him Steve Nash. They found
Brown some depth as they signed Jodie Meeks and Antwaun Jamison. They got him a
championship caliber team and expected championship caliber results…
The
season did not yield that level of results. The Lakers started the season 1-4,
looking lost out there at times. And an atmosphere that was extremely negative
and didn’t seem to be getting any better. As the media began to really pay
attention to the Lakers and began to doubt a lot of the moves that had been
made so far this offseason. The ownership was now being held accountable and
talked about. This did not make the Lakers happy. And even though the
management had said plenty of times to give
it time and that the team just had to get used to Mike Browns “Princeton
offense”. The pressure was beginning to mount and the media was beginning to
wonder if the Lakers were going to do anything about it. (Mind you still only 5
games into a 82 game season). So the Lakers decided to do something about it….
They fired Mike Brown…after only 5 games. They fired Mike Brown and let the
whole thing fall on his shoulders. When the problem was with the mismatched pieces
that they put together on the arena floor. But that’s ok because thanks to the
media the “zen master” himself was ready to get up off his death bed and come
back to coach this team of all stars. Every media outlet was covering it the
media was all about Phil coming back to LaLa land. But then the team throws a
curveball out there in the form of hiring former Knicks and Suns head coach
Mike D’antoni. This step outside the bounds of what this column is about I think was still persuaded by the
media and the fans calling for a better use of new point guard Steve Nash. But
overall you can get the gist of what I am saying. The media has a bigger
foothold in what goes on in sports than we would like to admit. Don’t believe
me see BCS Playoffs circa 2014…
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