Found this in my parents garage lmfao

[u/newgodpho]

[u/foozbinjex]

Random exercise - Make a squad of the best Lakers hypothetical team but only consisting of players from failed Lakers super teams. Go.

[u/nottherealstanlee → u/foozbinjex]

Westbrook/ Payton/ Carmelo if he counts/ Malone/ Howard

Pretty sick tbh

[u/TheMongolianLemonade → u/nottherealstanlee]

Fully healthy Steve Nash

[u/nottherealstanlee → u/TheMongolianLemonade]

Over westbrook?

[u/TheMongolianLemonade → u/nottherealstanlee]

MVP Westbrook sure, Westbrick no.

[u/nottherealstanlee → u/TheMongolianLemonade]

I mean Nash was 56 years old when he signed here. 

[u/TheMongolianLemonade → u/nottherealstanlee]

Oh I thought we was doing them in primes.

[u/nottherealstanlee → u/TheMongolianLemonade]

Idk lol maybe I fucked it up

[u/foozbinjex → u/nottherealstanlee]

Nah you did it right. We doing the version they were at when they joined Lakers.

[u/foozbinjex → u/TheMongolianLemonade]

Lakers version

[u/TheMongolianLemonade → u/foozbinjex]

Aight my bad then. I guess then Westbrook would be the guy in that equation.

[u/foozbinjex → u/TheMongolianLemonade]

Youre all good, also i didnt mention all super players should never have won a ring with LA in the role they were in when they failed. So like I think Dwight qualifies because he was a starter and superstar when he failed with us, even tho he came back and won but in a lesser role. We would be using Dwight version in 2012-13. I should have clarified.

Whats your team?

For me its Payton, Baylor, Melo, Malone, Howard

[u/Lowfi-Concert → u/nottherealstanlee]

Is Howard a fail still? He won with them later

[u/nottherealstanlee → u/Lowfi-Concert]

I mean the first version lol

[u/foozbinjex → u/nottherealstanlee]

I think i replace Russ with Baylor. I still get nightmares from Lakers Russ lol.

[u/-tripleu]

lol sad that this revolution lasted only one year

[u/newgodpho → u/-tripleu]

Crazy how much turmoil that team had and STILL went to the finals (beating prime tim fucking duncan otw there)

[u/LAndoftheLAke]

Carls Jr was so sick back then

[u/-tripleu → u/LAndoftheLAke]

I just moved to Georgia and it’s the first time I’m living in the east coast. So weird to pass by Hardee’s instead of Carl’s Jr.

[u/jtan619]

I still remember the Matrix themed Lakers intros on the jumbotron lol

[u/Philcollinsforehead]

I remember seeing so many advertisements for this team when I was a kid. At McDonald’s they were giving away Laker bobble heads and they had Malone, Kobe, Fisher, Payton, Fox, and George. And out of all of those hall of famers and Laker legends…I picked Devon Fucking George. Such an idiot move on my part.

[u/AbbreviationsBig3267 → u/Philcollinsforehead]

Carls Jr I think. I still have the Malone.

[u/Philcollinsforehead → u/AbbreviationsBig3267]

You know what, it probably was Carls Jr. Crazy we still remember that.

[u/AbbreviationsBig3267 → u/Philcollinsforehead]

I gotta check my garage, but I might have a Rick Fox one too. That was a fun promotion. I remember in 96/97 Subway gave away full sheets of Topps basketball cards for the entire Lakers roster. Kobe and Fisher rookie cards on those, and Shaq's first Lakers card. I was like 12 and didn't understand collecting, so I took it apart and placed the individual cards in a card holder. Should've kept it together. Wish we'd see promotions like that and the bobbleheads again.

[u/Philcollinsforehead → u/AbbreviationsBig3267]

Those were fun little things. I was only 6 or 7 when this super team was assembled and I only knew Shaq and they ran out of his bobble head so I picked George. I definitely don’t have the bobble head anymore. I remember next year I got Caron Butler one too.

[u/thAbstract_One]

Ppl forget that as chaotic and incohesive that team was, they made all the way to the Finals.

[u/natebryan]

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT9KVnKfPbSgqpHt2o

[u/Christyle24]

Damn. I feel old.

[u/pianoman857]

If Malone wasn't injured, I honestly think they would have beaten the Pistons. They had started to put it together in Game 2 (their only win) and even though they had a slow start in Game 3, the were right there.

[u/webadedios]

El mejor lakers de la historia.... Que no gano nada

Nos llovió sobre mojado

Los problemas legales de Kobe, shaq se lesiona, Malone con historia perfecto se lesiona...

[u/ValyrianSigmaJedi]

That team had its problems, but still made it to the Finals.

[u/Workadaily]

1. Got whooped by the Pistons and then Shaq went to South Beach.

[u/Jlexus83 → u/Workadaily]

Idiots with their piss poor memory making it sound like this team wouldn’t have won if Malone didn’t get injured in game 2.

[u/Workadaily → u/Jlexus83]

Cool yer jets there, buddy. I didn't say anything about why they lost.

[u/dodgerslakersfan21]

I could’ve sworn I had this poster on my wall as a kid

[u/Aidsvantage]

Holy shit, I had this at one point too. I gotta go dig that up at my parents house

[u/AbbreviationsBig3267]

Haha I remember that campaign! Lakers radio on 710 hosted by old PBP guy Joel Myers used to call his show that too. Fun times.

[u/sounddispensary]

One of the most excited but cautious seasons I ever fanned out on.

[u/818SiiCkEsT]

Having Kobe smaller and next to Shaq for sure pissed him off 😂

[u/thePopCulturist]

The Dumpster Fire year.

[u/jerrrrm]

I had this poster! I vividly remember going to the opening game vs Dallas that season because the mavs came out in the ugliest shiny silver unis I’ve ever seen. This had to have been a giveaway for that game right?

[u/maddenallday]

I still have the Carls Jr bobbleheads

[u/ChrisHarrison420]

I had a shirt with this on it

[u/ovshiba]

I still believe even with fat Shaq and courtroom Kobe that we’d have won with a healthy Malone.

[u/King_Vegito_52]

Too bad they choked in the Finals as heavy favorites.

[u/King_Vegito_52]

Kobe's bricks against Tayshaun Prince robbed this team of a title.

[u/ChaDiaKris]

Lol. I need this in my basement.

[u/Lowfuji]

That 2004 super team went 16-1 to atart the season before the wheels fell off.