Doug Gottlieb: “A lot of people are just brushing this off and saying it makes sense… Tonight would have been a little bit early, and a little bit raw, and might not have been great basketball, but it’s exactly what Los Angeles needed, it’s exactly what the Lakers needed, and it’s exactly what basketball needed. Frankly, it was what SPORTS needed. I can’t believe the Lakers couldn’t see the pluses outweighing the minuses. When somebody close to you dies it’s always going to feel like ‘too early’, but what are you left to do if you’re not playing basketball or not working? You’re left to sit and think. The whole idea of sports is to take us away from what’s going on at home. Those fans in LA needed a game NOW to feel better, even if only for 3 hours… In an effort to be super, super sensitive, you actually didn’t understand the power and value of your own sport.” (Full Video Above)
Listen to Doug Gottlieb explain why he thinks the NBA dropped the ball in postponing Tuesday night’s Lakers versus Clippers game, as the shocking death of Kobe Bryant sent the entire sport into a tailspin over the weekend.
After one of the darkest events in sports history, Gottlieb says the city of Los Angeles desperately needed Tuesday night’s game to start the long road to recovery in a night that would have gone down as perhaps the most emotional, raw, and powerful moments in league history.
Check out the video above as Gottlieb details why sports are quite possibly the greatest pain relieving elixir imaginable, and why Tuesday would have accomplished just that.