It took 4 years (2005-2008) to compete for rings. That’s pretty damn good when your core was Kobe, Kareem rush Devean George & Luke Walton at the start of the rebuild.
It only took 4 years because Kobe finally had enough and demanded a trade which forced Dr. Buss to come back from retirement because mitch and cokehead were both worthless.
Man fukk Mitch, the Kobe/Shaq era ended like it did because he has zero creativity with rosters which depleted the bench and made the team more top heavy than it already was. Mitch wanted to draft Sean May’s and it took cokehead lowkey racist weirdo correlation between horse breeding and drafting that made us get Bynum. All Mitch was ever good for was working the cap. Other than that he needed Logo, Dr. Buss, cokehead, shyt, even Kobe, to guide his bum ass to make some moves. Had we just kept Logo and left Mitch to be the numbers guy it would’ve been perfect.