redseat
Well-Known Member
No one's saying they suck. That's not the point. The point is that the media loves to talk about the Lakers because they are the NBA's glamour franchise.
When the Lakers are championship contenders. The media loves to talk about them, how great they are, how great whatever star player they have is, etc.
When the Lakers suck, they love to talk about what is wrong with the Lakers and how to fix it.
While the Lakers have had bad teams since the Dwight/Nash thing blew up...the Clippers have had arguably the best run of success in their history. Yet, everyone wants to talk about the Lakers.
Watch when the Lakers play in other cities. Even as a bad team, you will often see an unusual number of Lakers jersey's in the stands.
If you talk to/read pretty much every member of the media, they will tell you that they get far more clicks off of Lakers stories than any other team.
There is no question that wherever Lebron goes, it's going to be huge news. He's the best player in the game.
But watch, if Lebron doesn't go to the Lakers, the next biggest story after where he went will be..."Why didn't Lebron pi ck the Lakers and what does it mean for them?" and every talking head/talk show out there will be weighing in on that.
i know no one said the Lakers sucked...Didn't say the Lakers aren't a glamour franchise either. I get the media loves to talk about LA as your mentioned they do have a but load of history and intrigue, I get all of that, never thought they didn't. I just think no matter where he winds up going it will be a media blow out and huge news and talked about 24/7... it's just that LA has a bigger media market and yes more history so naturally one would think he would be a "bigger" deal for those reasons if he went to LA.... I just think it would be very similar in any market.. the media would follow him no matter where he went...