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Exactly What Are You Doing?

This is an open letter to any and all Laker fans that find themselves doubting Artest. I don't see the team love going out to our newest contributor. I see alot of people writing about how they are worried that RonRon will disrupt our chemistry. One fan even went as far as to send an open letter to the guy. As if he was the gatekeeper and spoke for all Laker fans.(by use of the word 'we') I know I'm gonna catch 'ish for my next words but oh well. Where were all these concerned, open and public letters when Shaq and Kobe were going at it? How about concern over their egos when we were so close in '03 and '04. No one wanted to look like a 'giver of advice' back then. All I saw was a bunch of ostriches with their heads in the sand. Now, with a new out of towner in town, what happens? Vocal doubt over an excellent ball player that has a blemish on his record. Did you/we treat Kobe like this after Colorado? I remember exactly how quiet LA was. Artests issues are nowhere near as extreme. RonRon is the perfect ingredient to cause mental eruptions. Guys like 'Sheed or the Nuggets as a whole are just a sampling of weak minded men that will tech out of a game because of RonRons ability to annoy. Boards and assists, on and on. He destroyed B-Roy and Portland by being physical. Whats not to like? Oh, thats right, you're still holding on to the fight. Hold on to the fact that the last DPotY on the Lakers was Coop' in the 80's. We need that mentality to graduate. We were the first to repeat pre-Jordan and the first to repeat post-Jordan.

At first I thought the masses were just trying to inspire. You know, make him show you how wrong you are. Then it became clear, people fear the unknown. I fear these people have yet to make RonRon feel at home here in LA. Which leads back to my question. Just tell me(and the rest of the non-doubters)what the hell do you think you're doing?

Go make a new addition on some other squad feel unwelcome. Leave RonRon alone.