Will The 2009 Lakers Or Magic Go Down As One Of The Least Talented NBA Teams To Win A Title?

[HacheMan]

A title is a title, but should the 2009 NBA Champion Lakers or Magic even be mentioned in the same breath as past championship teams?

What teams can we really consider worse?

 

[FearTheRaven]

Any time you have the best player in the world on the championship team, I don't think it can be considered least talented.

 

[M.Saracen]

absolutely not. both these teams are incredibly talented.

 

[SmokeyLa]

I agree with this thread initially. Kobe is great, but the rest of that talent is mediocre absent Gasol, and even he isnt a top notch second best player. At least the magoc have three legit all starts this year.

Sign of a watered down NBA.

 

[barman]

Some people have labeled them as seeming rather Ordinary

Beat a team with very weak defense (Utah), another team with two missing starters (Houston) and then had legitimate win over Denver - another team with just two All Star calibre players.

:grandmais


(oh, and they trampled the pootie out of my preferred team this past Thursday)

 

[TomGshotput]

These same exact Lakers were the favorites in last years finals, so wouldn't that make the 2008 Celtics (who were very close to losing before the Finals) not much better?