Tragedy Or Triumph For A Laker

Casual fans of the Lakers may wonder who the guy sitting at the end of the bench during the Finals was. He was the guy who rarely got into games during the season and did little to show he should be in games.  He was the ‘other guy’ in the trade that brought Shannon Brown to the team. The irony is that he was actually supposed to be the main guy Charlotte was giving up to get Vladimir Radmanovich, Shannon Brown was just a throw in. I’m talking, of course, about Adam Morrison. Adam Morrison came to the Lakers in February 2009 and immediately made almost no impression at all.  He showed no signs of being the great scorer he had been while at Gonzaga, the college player who led the nation in scoring from 2005-2006. The story was already being written, another first-round draft bust. Morrison was the player who showed great promise only to fizzle in the NBA. He was the great prospect who was injured early in his career and never quite recovered.  Ironica...