Lakers' Biggest Hater Completely Disrespects Recent LA Accomplishments
This is a bonkers claim.
A Hall of Fame NBA coach and longtime Los Angeles Lakers rival opted to call out L.A.'s LeBron James era with some savage undercutting.
George Karl, who long led Western Conference nemeses like the Seattle SuperSonics and the Denver Nuggets, weighed in on his personal X account:
In his mind, L.A.'s excellent 2019-20 season, during which the club went 52-19 en route to the "bubble" title (in the first year of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic), somehow doesn't have any value. It was a victory, every other competitive team was in Orlando, and beyond the standard injuries (there are injuries every year), everyone was fairly available.
Los Angeles won in 2020 and has made an additional Western Conference Finals appearance in 2023. There's plenty of merit in that.
Karl boasts a 1175-824 all-time regular season head coaching record, plus an 80-105 playoff record. He's made the NBA Finals just once, when he led the Gary Payton/Shawn Kemp-era SuperSonics to a 64-18 record and an eventual six-game loss to the Michael Jordan/Scottie Pippen/Dennis Rodman-era Chicago Bulls. He last coached in the league during the 2015-16 season, with the DeMarcus Cousins-era Sacramento Kings.
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