Enter Johnson, the year-old rookie. He even jumped for the opening tip. The stunning effort exemplified his uncanny ability to do whatever the Lakers needed in order to win. The next year was not nearly as kind to Johnson or to the Lakers. Johnson had made only 2 of his 13 field-goal attempts when he tossed up an airball as time ran out in Game 3. The Lakers lost the game and the series. The season also had its share of ugliness. Early on, Westhead wanted to restructure the offense in a way that Johnson believed would have reduced his role.
In a widely reported incident, Johnson exploded in the lockerroom after a game in Utah. I want to leave. Reporters waited for the signal that Johnson was joking. Westhead was fired the next day and replaced with assistant coach Pat Riley. In Seattle he was jeered whenever he touched the ball. He paid the price in the All-Star balloting and was not selected as a starter for the only time in his career other than his injury season.
He won his second consecutive steals title that season and for the remainder of his career would never dip below averages of The two years following the Westhead flap were great for Johnson individually but tough for Los Angeles. Johnson won the first two of his four league assists titles and continued to improve upon his already brilliant all-around play.
The 76ers swept the series. With Johnson improving his outside shot and setting assists records, the Lakers won three NBA titles in the next four years.
The first of this string came in the Finals win over their nemesis the Celtics. The decisive victory came on the Garden parquet floor and marked the first time the Lakers defeated the Celtics in a Finals after eight previous failures strecthing back to when the Lakers played in Minneapolis.
He pumped in 38 points against Houston and then a career-high 46 points in the next game against the Sacramento Kings. His Johnson had wanted it badly. That bugs me a little. Johnson quickly mastered his own version of the shot, which he used to make the game-winning basket in the Game 4 victory at the Garden, In , the Lakers edged the Detroit Pistons in a bitter seven-game series to become the first team since the Celtics to repeat as champs.
The following two seasons Johnson averaged more than 20 points and led the Lakers to two more division titles. The next year Los Angeles suffered its earliest departure from the playoffs in nine years, losing to the Phoenix Suns in the Conference Semifinals.
Johnson in the campaign helped the Lakers to a record. Game-by-game stat line for the player Career Playoffs. Player stats broken down into various categories; i.
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