The Los Angeles Lakers are one game from being eliminated from the Western Conference semi-finals.
The team that has won two championships back-to-back and has been to the NBA finals three straight years is about to be eliminated by the Dallas Mavericks.
The Lakers who were favorites to win a third consecutive title will not be making it out of the West this postseason.
The team that has been dominating the past two years is not the same team out there this year.
The dynasty that started in Los Angeles when Pau Gasol arrived in 2008 is ending in the hands of that same Gasol in the second round of the 2011 NBA playoffs.
Andrew Bynum, the player always being the missing factor for the Lakers success but failing to do so because of injuries, is the same player playing without injuries during the time the Lakers are not succeeding.
In other words . . . It is over for the Lakers and their fans. (It hurts me to say that.)
It looks to be the end of a wonderful ride for me and my fellow Laker fans.
It was nice to have myself in the Lakers 2010 championship DVD, celebrating the Game 7 win over the Boston Celtics in Los Angeles with fellow Laker fans as I find myself onto the news stations live shots, and being present for two victory parades down Figueroa Street.
The Lakers might be falling to the ground but the purple and gold will live again and return to glory once again. Once a champion, always a champion. 16 champions and counting, the Lakers will find away back to the top.
Until then, the Lakers are signing off.
The Mavs now have a great chance to get to the Finals. These Lakers are not the type of team to put any extra effort to avoid getting swept; they know they can't come back from 3-0, so I doubt they will even try. They'll win Game 4 only if the Mavs have a bad shooting night or if the Mavs take their foot off the gas.
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