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What fans don’t love to relive the good times of their favorite team? Likewise, in a twisted sort of way, what fans can really resist a self-pitying look back on some of those times that tested their allegiance? Those forgettable games, seasons, and plays that made the good times even better?
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Los Angeles Lakers by Steven Travers (Foreword by Art Spander) presents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the Los Angeles Lakers. It also unmasks, but doesn’t revel in, the bad, the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly.
In entertaining—and unsparing—fashion, this book sparkles with Lakers highlights, lowlights, wonderful and wacky memories, legends and goats, the famous and the infamous. You’ll relive the thirty-three game win streak but also the failure to win it all in the 1960s. The dazzling passes of Magic Johnson but also the implosion of the 2004-2005 Lakers.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Los Angeles Lakers includes the best and worst Lakers teams and players of all time, the most clutch performances and performers, the biggest choke jobs and chokers, great comebacks and blown leads, plus overrated and underrated Lakers players and coaches. There are Lakers you loved for all the right reasons, and those you couldn’t stand, sublime and embarrassing records, and trades, both savvy and savagely bad. Brawls and fights. Rivalries. Compelling photos. And much, much more.
If you’re a through-thick-and-thin Lakers fan, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Los Angeles Lakers is especially for you. It will remind you of the good and great times and bring a knowing smile about some of those other times, when you proved to yourself just how loyal you are. For everyone else, this warts-and-all portrait of the Lakers will provide countless fond memories, goose bumps, and laughs.