Los Angeles is the land of gimmicks. It is the place that will turn tricks to increase media attention. This is what we want to believe after Los Angeles went all retro and brought out their vintage 1980’s thigh long shorts against Boston last night. The move was intended to commemorate the great rivalry between Larry Byrd’s Celtics and Magic Johnson’s Lakers, but that didn’t turn out so well.

The Lakers wore short shorts from that era in the first half Sunday. Jerry West was the honorary team captain for the night, which included a brief acknowledgment at midcourt before the game, and it seemed more than appropriate that assistant coach Kurt Rambis donned his old Clark Kent glasses for the game. Then the game actually began and the Lakers’ four-game winning streak ended.

Short shorts and Clark Kent glasses for Rambis? The Lakers were down eight going into the half, so to disrupt their horrible play (obviously manifested by those ridiculous uniforms. Did anyone notice how white Farmar’s legs really are? Hey-sus!), the Lakers changed wardrobe to 2007 and still got rocked.

Our advice: if you’re going to bring back “vintage”, then get Marc Michael Cooper [Ed. Note: 102 degree fever influenced that typo. We’re warriors.] and James Worthy out of an announcing booth to play a quarter. Magic Johnson’s too fat, so he’s out.

Lakers come up short [LATimes]
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