Los Angeles Lakers Team Analysis

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The Los Angeles Lakers have had a number of new coaches and shifting management since the finish of the 2011 season when Phil Jackson retired from the Lakers organization. Ever since than the team has seen three coaches: Mike Brown, Mike D’Antoni, and Bryon Scott. The management has only seen one change and that is due in part because of the late Dr. Jerry Buss leaving us and his son Jim Buss taking over. Since that time in 2013 the team has seen a rapid amount of change from bad deals that would directly affect the future of the team in a negative way. Kobe Bryant’s $24 million a year deal for two years is one of these deals that could have been seen as questionable. I mean yes, the Lakers did make a huge sum of money from this deal because

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