Post by michaelmorin on Feb 3, 2018 4:58:06 GMT -5
Hello,
This was the same college player who just happened to be on the original 1992 Dream Team basketball team.
Laettner was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves in 1992, where they didn't have a winning record when he was around from '92-'93 to midway through '95-'96 as someone who was miscast as a superstar who was to take Minnesota to the top of the Western Conference standings. Isaiah Rider was a chronic troublemaker, & Doug West was a secret alcoholic although it got worse when he was sent to Vancouver and went to rehab to get his alcohol addiction treated.
No wonder why Laettner had no fellow stars who could support him in Minny. It wasn't until the likes of Tom Gugliotta and Kevin Garnett arrived that Minnesota's fortunes gradually turned around, and in addition: veterans Terry Porter and original Minnesota Timberwolves' player Sam Mitchell were signed to serve primarily as mentors for a teenage KG in order to limit Laettner's negative cynical influence.
And when Laettner got traded to the Atlanta Hawks, he joined a winning team that had the likes of Mookie Blaylock, Steve Smith, Stacey Augmon and Grant Long as their key players, as well as Laettner. '96-'97 was Laettner's best year in the NBA as he netted himself an All-Star berth for the Hawks, although Laettner would slightly be marginalized due to Lenny Wilkens wanting to try out Alan Henderson as a starter.
With the emergence of Alan Henderson, Laettner was expendable so he was signed-and-traded to the Detroit Pistons for '98-'99 where he had a game-breaking torn achilles tendon in an otherwise forgettable season as a backup PF behind Don Reid and a backup C behind Bison Dele.
After the departures of Reid and Dele, Laettner was reinstated as the starter who seemingly felt rejuvenated in '99-'00 as Detroit's starting center. Although a fight with fellow Pistons teammate Jerry Stackhouse over a card game spelled the end for Laettner as a Piston as he was moved to the Dallas Mavericks in 2000.
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This was the same college player who just happened to be on the original 1992 Dream Team basketball team.
Laettner was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves in 1992, where they didn't have a winning record when he was around from '92-'93 to midway through '95-'96 as someone who was miscast as a superstar who was to take Minnesota to the top of the Western Conference standings. Isaiah Rider was a chronic troublemaker, & Doug West was a secret alcoholic although it got worse when he was sent to Vancouver and went to rehab to get his alcohol addiction treated.
No wonder why Laettner had no fellow stars who could support him in Minny. It wasn't until the likes of Tom Gugliotta and Kevin Garnett arrived that Minnesota's fortunes gradually turned around, and in addition: veterans Terry Porter and original Minnesota Timberwolves' player Sam Mitchell were signed to serve primarily as mentors for a teenage KG in order to limit Laettner's negative cynical influence.
And when Laettner got traded to the Atlanta Hawks, he joined a winning team that had the likes of Mookie Blaylock, Steve Smith, Stacey Augmon and Grant Long as their key players, as well as Laettner. '96-'97 was Laettner's best year in the NBA as he netted himself an All-Star berth for the Hawks, although Laettner would slightly be marginalized due to Lenny Wilkens wanting to try out Alan Henderson as a starter.
With the emergence of Alan Henderson, Laettner was expendable so he was signed-and-traded to the Detroit Pistons for '98-'99 where he had a game-breaking torn achilles tendon in an otherwise forgettable season as a backup PF behind Don Reid and a backup C behind Bison Dele.
After the departures of Reid and Dele, Laettner was reinstated as the starter who seemingly felt rejuvenated in '99-'00 as Detroit's starting center. Although a fight with fellow Pistons teammate Jerry Stackhouse over a card game spelled the end for Laettner as a Piston as he was moved to the Dallas Mavericks in 2000.
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