Mitch Kupchak Optimistic About Season
Mitch Kupchak knows stories like this one won’t matter come June, when all the hype is gone and his Lakers will either be pushing toward the only goal that matters or explaining what went wrong during yet another offseason of change.
Championship-or-bust is an enviable stance to take, to be sure, a creed that only the Lakers, Celtics and Spurs have been able to realistically embrace for decades at a time. Which is why, when the Lakers’ general manager agreed to speak with SI.com about the new superteam he created by adding Dwight Howard and Steve Nash, he didn’t get past his first sentence before sharing the organization’s unofficial mantra heading into next month’s training camp: On Paper.
It’s not the sexiest slogan, but they may as well mass produce the purple and gold T-shirts and get them ready for the preseason home opener against Golden State on Oct. 7. The Lakers, with a starting five for the ages in Nash, Kobe Bryant, Metta World Peace, Pau Gasol and Howard, will have to prove they’re worthy of all this ink. And if they don’t, there will be hell to pay for all the hullabaloo.
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