![]() Whether it is disagreement amongst the organization’s general management, a lack of cohesiveness amongst the players and/or coaching that has not effectively leveraged the team’s talent pool – there does not exist any level of sustainable cohesiveness to make you believe they can turn it around. The Los Angeles Lakers have lacked continuity in all of these areas. Like the most successful companies that embrace the promise of their culture, this requires leadership that knows how to create seamless chemistry and that can teach each team member how to rekindle the flow when it gets lost. Building a winning team requires a commitment from the entire organization to understand one another how each team member’s personality type, subtle nuances and unique capabilities can execute together. Having the best individual talent doesn’t mean you will have the best team. Whether you are a Lakers fan or not, observe their recent catastrophic collapse and you will see lessons in leadership, team management and how the best laid plans can backfire. Touted as a pre-season favorite to represent the Western Conference in the NBA Finals after acquiring Steve Nash and Dwight Howard in the off-season, the Lakers have embarrassed themselves and their fans by displaying poor leadership, resulting in a record of 19-25 (winning percentage of. The sports theme got me thinking about the Los Angeles Lakers and how they provide one of the most unique leadership case studies in recent professional sports history. Last week I wrote about what the NFL can teach corporations about diversity management. You can follow this author on Twitter at. The Lakers’ current uniforms were inspired by the Showtime Lakers unis, so they’re low on the list of jerseys that fans are clamoring for them to bring back, but it would be pretty amusing to see them bring the shorts back again, so long as they’re better sports than the 2007-08 Lakers were.įor more Lakers talk, subscribe to the Silver Screen and Roll podcast feed on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Podcasts. We also gave the baby blue Minneapolis Lakers jerseys a hard look, but they’re technically property of Minnesota, so we decided not to touch them. The blue and white jerseys that the Lakers wore from 1960 to 1996 deserved serious consideration, and we almost picked it just to pressure the organization into bringing them back for next season, but there’s just no way to compete with the Showtime Lakers. For that reason, the Showtime Lakers jerseys were our pick for the “Best Jerseys in Lakers history,” the first part of SB Nation’s Jerseys Week. In all seriousness, these jerseys have the benefit of being worn by the Showtime Lakers, which were led by Basketball Hall of Famers Magic Johnson, James Worthy and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. However, after the Lakers made the decision to switch to purple letters with a white drop shadow, they won five NBA championships in 10 years. To be clear, there wasn’t anything wrong with the way the Lakers’ jerseys looked prior to 1978 - in fact, some people actually prefer the white letters with the purple drop shadow. With a simple change they made ahead of 1978-79 season, they did just that. ![]() With a look as classic as the Lakers’, it’s hard to make a uniform look bad, but it’s even harder to make a uniform stand out from the rest. It’s arguably the most classic look in the NBA. Outside of the five years they were the blue and white Los Angeles Lakers, they’ve donned a purple and gold uniform with the “Lakers” wordmark across their chest. The Lakers have had roughly the same look since they re-located to Los Angeles in 1960.
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