century before Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant chased their curious chemistry as Lakers teammates, Mikan and Pollard spent their careers with the old Minneapolis Lakers alternating between fighting over the ball and winning championships. They won six of them, in fact, including five NBA titles and one in the old National League. And they debated their chemistry every step of the way. The bad news for O’Neal and Bryant is that four decades after Mikan and Pollard won their last title, they were still jawing over the issue in interviews for history books.Derrick Rose : Bulls Vs Lakers It seems that these hoops conflicts run forever, or until the last sports talk radio show signs off. As Tex Winter, the longtime observer of the game, explained, “That’s basketball.” That’s also the Lakers, the ultimate team in the history of the game. As the cover of this book declares, this is their story, told in their own words. Not surprisingly, it’s a bit complicated. There’s a team plane crash in a snowstorm, at least two near financial fail- ures, more than a few bewildering real estate transactions, a high-profile rape case, a low-profile indecent exposure case, an unsolved murder, the firings ofseveral winning coaches, and enough sexual hijinks to qualify as a soap opera,
