With the Mavs eliminated from the playoffs, here's the inside story of “One, Two, Three … Cancun!” Why Cancun? 🏖 Because of vanexel31 and a painful Lakers moment in 1998. HowardBeck with more:
Van Exel was 26 at the time, a five-year vet. His voice mattered, in good times and bad. He’d tried on other occasions to rally the Lakers with impassioned speeches—“I would get emotional; I started crying and s---,” he recalls. “And of course, the s--- didn’t work. But that was my job.”
No, they would all soon be on vacation. A little tropical-themed joke seemed fitting, at least to Van Exel. But perhaps not to everyone. There were more obvious reasons for the trade. Van Exel had clashed repeatedly with head coach Del Harris. The Lakers had a surplus of talented young guards in Bryant, Jones and Fisher, and growing payroll concerns. And, in Van Exel’s recollection, the team had started to break into factions that season.
The “Cancun” story back then came with a clear implication: that Van Exel was quitting on his team. Horry dismisses the notion, saying, “I don’t think anybody was mad about it.” Van Exel is adamant that his intentions were pure.
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