The Lakers will enter the upcoming season among the favorites to take the 2012-13 NBA championship alongside the defending champion Miami Heat and runner-up Oklahoma City Thunder.
Check out what Metta World Peace had to say during a recent radio interview with Max Kellerman and Marcellus Wiley on ESPN 710 AM in Los Angeles & let us know what you think!
Transcribed by Chris Fedor of Sports Radio Interviews:
enigmatic Lakers forward Metta World Peace said he would have loved to take part in the LBJ/KD workouts, “but they’re Nike guys and Nike guys like to stick together.” But while World Peace does think players can learn something from one another in training, he doesn’t see anything that James or Durant gleaned from their workouts helping them much, because “the way the Lakers look initially, I can’t see nobody getting past us at all, so I don’t think they’re going to have a chance to see each other in the championship.”
Pretty confident, Metta. But are you “make reckless claims about historic dominance” confident?
What he thinks about the team possibly not having Dwight Howard at the start of Training Camp:
“We definitely want to beat the Bulls record and go 73-9, that’s definitely something that I want to do. Whoever is out there at the beginning of the season then we gotta get it. It’s as simple as that. We just have to go get it. [Host: So that Bulls record is something you’re thinking about?] No question. You try to snatch records before you leave this earth. You gotta try to do a lot of great things so it’s definitely a goal. With Dwight Howard, [Steve] Nash, Kobe [Bryant], myself, Pau [Gasol] and then [Antawn] Jamison and a lot of great additions, it’s something that’s possible.”
Well, then.
To win more than 85 percent of your games over the course of an 82-game season, you need to be consistently excellent, consistently healthy and consistently lucky; to suggest that a Lakers team that’s integrating key new pieces like Howard, Nash and Jamison alongside Gasol and Kobe will be able to hit the ground running that smoothly and maintain its forward momentum no matter what seems like an awful lot to ask.
What do you guys think?!
WRITTEN BY Dan Devine | Ball Don’t Lie & FULL STORY HERE
