text: are the lakers really "player killers"? think about it  they spend lot's of bucks on    vladimir radmanovic and he's tanking.  glen rice, isaiah rider, dennis rodman even ... players that are good that just die in the laker system.  george mccloud, cedric ceballos, sam bowie ... m'god the list just goes on! think about it this way.  even the best of teams don't win every year.  and not every player can play for the lakers coaches.  i think ceballos was a better sun than a laker.  rice better w/ the heat. mccloud?  who the "bleap" is that?  and if you ask 90% of hoops fans they'd say "sam bowie, so what."   the players you listed are journeymen, players that get traded 3 at a time for an all-star, (except rice).  and in rice and rodman's cases it was nearing retirement time for them.  so no the lakers are not "player killers".  now kobe can kill your reputation.  but that's another story.