It isn't a miserable day in Lakers history just because we didn't ship out pieces to save money. Let's not exaggerate here.
When we lost Chris Paul, when we chose Mike Brown to replace Phil, when we picked MDA over Phil to come back, those were terrible days for us. It amazes me that some of you were okay with MDA over Phil and are NOW upset about where we're headed.
I'm convinced Dwight doesn't leave if Phil is coaching us. Would we have won a title last year? No, but we would still have Dwight because he could trust in his head coach and believe that there is a plan in place. Does anyone believe that right now we have a plan in place to take us back to the top?
Any skepticism a FA would have about us is completely warranted, because when we've had the chance to make the right choice, we've done the opposite.
Sorry, but even if Phil were here, you can't trust anything on Dwight Howard. He didn't leave here because of a coach, no coach is worth giving away 31+ million, and Kevin McHale is not some supremely better coach than Mike is.
If Nash and Kobe aren't broken, that alone might have been enough to sway him back, you can't put Dwight leaving on D'Antoni, that's baseless.