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Lakers I Miss: The Fabulous Forum
Lakers I Miss: The Fabulous Forum
“Let there be a new NBA basketball champion ensconced in my fabulous new Fabulous Forum.” - Jack Kent Cooke A building that in its later years seemed dated and cavernous. The place where all the tired Laker fan stereotypes were born. The same ones that were trotted out once again during this years Finals. Fair weather celebrity fans, those who went to the game to be watched ...
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FB&G: Lakers I Miss - The Fabulous Forum
The Lakers Nation — ... Forum Blue & Gold: “Let there be a new NBA basketball champion ensconced in my fabulous new Fabulous Forum.” ...

NBA Stadiums Blog Day
JONES ON THE NBA — ... BallerBlogger  Hardwood Paroxysm  Forum Blue and Gold (Their post is already up...a good example of what you can expect) SLC Dunk   The Blowtorch  ...

NBA Stadiums Blog Day: The Running Thread
JONES ON THE NBA — ... Forum Blue and Gold appropriately takes a look a back at one of my favorite stadiums, the Great Western Forum. Whenever I hear the Forum mentioned, I think of Chick Hearn announcing to his listeners that the game was a sell out with “seventeen thousand five-o-five in attendance”.  ...

FB&G: Lakers I Miss - Michael Cooper
The Lakers Nation — ... time he would go to the scorers table to check in, COOOOOOOOOOP!!!! was the chant.  And on every perfectly executed alley-oop (as Chick would classicly call it, the Coop-a-loop), on every blocked shot (where he set up the offensive player and baited him into trying that lay up that got thrown back), on every nail-in-the-coffin 3 pointer he buried in the clutch, and on every strip of the ball on even the most perfectly executed crossover dribble, I (along with everyone else in the Fabulous Forum) chanted.  We cheered on the skinny guy with the whispy mustache and the legs that ...

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thelakersnation.com 9/5/2008 — Forum Blue & Gold : “Let there be a new NBA basketball champion ensconced in my fabulous new Fabulous Forum.” - Jack Kent Cooke A building that in its later years seemed dated and cavernous. The place where all the tired Laker fan stereotypes were born. The same ones that were trotted out once again during this years Finals. Fair weather celebrity fans, those who went ...
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