How the Lakers Last Decade Has Been Pure Chaos…

With a disastrous 2021-22 season finally wrapped up for the LA Lakers, I figured it was as good a time as ever to break down their break down... and not in a quick/easy way! Today we're looking back at the past decade for the Lakers, dating back to the tail end of their glory years with Kobe Bryant & Phil Jackson. The ensuing years have been an absolute roller-coaster - both in good and bad ways. I was able to narrow down the Lakers recent history to 10 "Chaos Inflection Points" which have dictated the flow of the franchise.

00:00 - Introduction
00:57 - Chapter 1: The End of an Era
02:32 - Chapter 2: Trying to Stay Relevant
05:32 - Chapter 3: A Superteam is Born
08:31 - Chapter 4: Kobe isn't Kobe Anymore
10:01 - Chapter 5: Who's to Blame?
11:18 - Chapter 6: The Rebuild Begins
13:23 - Chapter 7: Mis-management
14:43 - Chapter 8: A New Regime
16:01 - Chapter 9: The King Arrives
18:29 - Chapter 10: It Was All for This
21:21 - Chapter 11: Hungry for More
23:49 - Chapter 12: Due Diligence?
25:03 - Conclusion

How the Lakers Last Decade Has Been Pure Chaos…

[BballCinema]

Welcome to a brand new deep dive here on Basketball Cinema! To celebrate (or mourn?) the 21-22 Lakers season which will go down in the history books, I decided to lay out the entire path for how the Lakers franchise arrived at this point!

Please do me a solid and drop a THUMBS UP on this video if you found it enjoyable, or informative... or something lol

I'm guessing nobody noticed, but it bugged me when I proof-watched this video, just not enough to go back and change it: but at 6:50 I made a super minor editing error, meant to highlight "it's my team" in the quote from Kobe, smh.

"He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee." Luke 24: 6

[ryanday]

Awesome video as always. Love the content.

[zackbee]

Great video Jay. Thanks for taking the time to make fire content!

[gavinbrey]

Jay I don’t know how you do it but it’s amazing how you can always entertain us

[gavinbrey]

Jay I don’t know how you do it but your just amazing at entertaining all of us

[haroldnicolas]

At least they don't creeple people when they loose now...

[jondace]

Every shot Westbrook took and missed badly on it, he probably thought of his own meme😅

[kylewest]

At least we got a ring despite all that chaos

[mcoeif]

They still won a title with all that chaos

[CashCollecta]

The lakers have given up on a lot of their young players way too soon . Sacrificing them for Davis and a bubble championship it’s not coincidence many of them are thriving elsewhere on teams that are giving them opportunities. Players like Randle Ingram ball all would have been able to help the lakers long term

[gregorycampbell]

The Lakers had the best point guard the best center and the second best shooting guard and the best small forward

[rashadmitchell]

I have a good next video make one about Jordan Poole and how he became a star

[gregorycampbell]

Kobe is the greatest laker ever 2 best basketball player ever 💯

[MisterMooster]

Even in chaos they won a title, which only 7 of the 30 teams did during this time, so that's better than most.

[ayeszamarco]

Lakers worst deal is bron. They gave him everythibg he wanted and still cannot even go to playoffs.. luck it was pandemic he won a ring. Hshaha.. quiter and a bad leader. Blames others for his lack of leadership....stupid deal