After two straight dismal seasons, the Lakers are getting a head start on the post-Kobe Bryant era with a roster that includes four rookies and three other players with just one year of experience. The team hopes at least one of them will develop into something resembling the next Kobe.
After winning their first World Series title in 1985, the Kansas City Royals needed 30 years to capture another. Heck, it took 29 years just to make another postseason appearance. There were a lot of dark days in between for KC fans.
Getting good,
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The Houston Astros got it right when they dismantled their team in Braves-like fashion, going from 111 losses two years ago to a wild-card berth this season. But the Chicago Bulls, who broke up their dynasty after Michael Jordan retired in 1998,
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Until then, Jack Nicholson will have to handle this truth: the Lakers stink.
Jim Harbaugh and Colin Kaepernick spearheaded a brief return to glory, but Harbaugh is now coaching the University of Michigan and Kaepernick is on the bench. San Francisco (3-6) put up a white flag on this season when it traded tight end Vernon Davis to the Broncos for nothing more than low-round draft picks.
We could go on and on about teams that went from champions to afterthoughts a lot quicker than it took them to find their way back to the top. Rebuilding a team takes patience, skill and usually a bit of good fortune (See: Stephen Curry).
On the field, though, they're nothing more than a penny stock.
Ditto for Golden State, which followed its 1975 title with four largely irrelevant decades. Only when the Warriors drafted a skinny guard out of tiny Davidson College did things finally turn around. Curry,
Wholesale Jerseys China, to the surprise of just about everyone, turned out to be an MVP.
In the short term, things have gotten a lot worse.
How's that working out for Los Angeles Lakers? The Boston Celtics? The San Francisco 49ers?
ATLANTA (AP)