I've been a Lakers Fan for 15 years ever since I moved from Utah to California in 2001 from Utah and declaring the Lakers as my home team in the beautiful sunny state where I started a new beginning in life as an adolescent.

There were glorious moments that I still remember from Robert Horry's legendary buzzer beater against the Sacramento Queens to Kobe's 81 point performance against the Raptors, to the Lakers laying a smackdown against a savvy Nets team with possibly one of the top 5 greatest PG's of all-time A.K.A. Jason Kidd.

I also remember having to endure hard years from us having to deal with scrubs like Kwame Brown (still can't believe we actually traded him for Gasol) and Smush Parker to us blowing a 3-1 lead in the playoffs after Kobe finessing that buzzer beater that gave us that lead.

But in 2008, everything had changed when the Lakers and Celtics rivalry was revived. I actually didn't know how deep the rivalry was but when I found out that in the early days from Bill Russell giving a ass whooping to the Lakers in the early 60's to the Showtime in the 80's finally winning in the Boston Garden against the legendary Larry Bird and the fact that they had more titles than us was just absolutely maddening and it still is.

So after the horrific and embarrassing blowout loss against the Celtics at the Boston Garden in Game 6 in 2008, I cried and threw a tantrum, screamed profanities and got grounded at my parents' house for that weekend because I was that upset. I was also younger at the time and didn't really know how to control my emotions at the time.

From THAT POINT ON, I imagined that Kobe will get 3 more titles and he will give the Lakers an equal amount of NBA Championship titles along with the Celtics and I counted the years. 2009 came, and we won against the Magic. 2010 came and we battled the Celtics again all the way to a Shakespearean Game 7 that gave us another win.

But after that, it was all downhill from there. There was some drama going on with Gasol in the year of 2010 in the playoffs against the Mavericks that ended up Lakers losing their way to another 3peat. And then the Chris Paul trade didn't happen and everyone thought that Dwight Howard and Steve Nash was gonna make noise in the NBA but that went down far down south as you can go with that team and from that point on, injuries piled up on Kobe, he ruptured his Achilles and the rest is history from there.

To this day, I still wait for the Lakers to become winners and dominant competitors again in the League and just hope that one day we will get our 17th title and more to surpass the Celtics as the team in the NBA with the most Championship titles ever.

Sincerely,

a fan who just loves basketball.