Troubles The Los Angeles Lakers sign a six-foot-seven player from Bosnia for $25 million, and he phones his mom to tell her the good news. "Never mind!" she says angrily. "Don't you know your father's been wounded, your sister was assaulted, and our house burned down?" "That's terrible, Mom," he answers, "but we're rich now! We can survive anything! Why blame me?" She replies, "This wouldn't have happened if you hadn't brought us to L.A.!"