Just in case you have been living under a rock :)
A victory parade in honor of the Lakers will take place Wednesday, beginning at Staples Center, traveling South on Figueroa Street and culminating in front of an expected crowd of 95,000 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Double-decker buses carrying players, coaches and team executives will depart from Staples Center at 11 a.m. The Coliseum gates will open at 9:30 a.m. for anyone who wants to watch the parade on giant video screens, while fans can also stand anywhere along Figueroa
How do the 2009 Lakers rank in history?
There has been a lot of talk about how this Lakers’ team isn’t that good – and I’m not foolish enough to try to argue that they are as good as some of the best teams in NBA history. However, a valid argument can be made that they are in the group just below them. The question, as always in my world, is how do you measure something like this without personal bias or subjectivity? Here is a relatively simple way to do it.
Congrats boys
Congrats on the teams 15th, the LA Lakers 10th, the coaches 10th, Kobe's and Fishers 4th. I'll be expecting the same thing next year.
I sort of feel like Kobe when he said that it all felt surreal and indeed it does still. Great to see the Lakers back on top of the NBA again.
As for the parade, I missed those days. I had been to all three in the threepeat years and it's a bit weird not filing in that parking lot across Staples (now L.A. Live). I thought it would've been better if the parade route was the same (City Hall down to Staples) and hold the rally inside Staples, but I guess they wanted to squeeze as many people as they could in the rally as possible. Coliseum, it is.
the coliseum area is not exactly the neck of the woods i'd hold a parade, but hey, if you want to hold 100,000 people, there really is no other place.