The 2008 Lakers are well on their way to the NBA finals. That is if you believe in the "Phil Jackson/Lakers Leap Year Theory." Either a Phil Jackson coached team or a Lakers team has made the NBA finals every leap year from 1980-present.1980: Lakers Win the NBA Championship (4-2)
1984: Lakers lose in the NBA Finals (3-4)
1988: Lakers win the NBA Championship (4-3)
1992: Phil's Bulls win the NBA Championship (4-2)
1996: Phil's Bulls win the NBA Championship (4-2)
2000: Phil's Lakers win the NBA Championship (4-2)
2004: Phil's Lakers lose in the NBA Finals (1-4)
2008: ?
The Lakers are the current favorites to win it, but now you also have this added tidbit to keep yourself busy with. It may be a good time to start placing your bets...
7 comments:
Gay.
It's the Lakers density!
density? haha
I wish everyone would stop using this state.
A) year 2000 was NOT a leap year. Leap year by definition is every 4 years except when the year is divisible by 400 (so those of us who lived through that were in a special year)
B) This stat is just stretching it too much. kind of like 6 degrees of separation type thing
OH SNAP!
If February has 29 days in it....it's a leap year.
2000 was a leap year...for precisely the reason that you say it isn't...it's divisible by 400, that's the exception to the ending in 00 rule.
Typically a year has to be evenly divisible by 4 to be a leap year, unless it ends in 00. The exception to the 00 rule, is divisibility by 400.
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