I always thought it’d be hard to top the disappointment that was the 2012 Los Angeles Lakers.
That was supposed to be one of the greatest teams ever assembled. You bring in Dwight Howard in his prime, Steve Nash fresh off a Western Conference Finals run and you run them alongside Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and Metta World Peace? Yeah, that sounds like a world-beater to me.
But it wasn’t, obviously. They made the playoffs by the skin of their teeth. Everyone was always injured except Bryant. Well, until he tore his Achilles at the end of the season.
