When it comes to winning NBA Championships, the Los Angeles Lakers have certainly done well in that area. After all, they have the tied-most NBA Championships in the history of the league, with 17 Championship banners hanging in the rafters.
The success that the Los Angeles Lakers have achieved has come thanks to some legends of the sport, who have donned the iconic Purple and Gold jersey. But that doesn’t mean that the Lakers have always succeeded in getting any player that they wanted.
If anything, there have been several instances where owners, head coaches, and even the late NBA commissioner David Stern ruined the Lakers’ plans of getting a superstar.
NBA Fan Makes An All ‘Stick It To The Lakers’ First Team
The Los Angeles Lakers recently failed to complete a trade for Kyrie Irving. It was later revealed that Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai simply didn’t want to send Irving to the Purple and Gold. Anyway, here’s the starting 5 of the all ‘stick it to the Lakers’ first team made by an NBA fan on Twitter.
All “Stick It To The Lakers” 1st Team pic.twitter.com/KxdE5CLz8U
— 🏆LakersGuru🏆 (@GuruLakers) February 6, 2023
Joe Tsai may have been the most recent person to avoid doing a deal with the Lakers, he is certainly not the first. After all, we all remember Chris Paul got almost traded to the Lakers back in 2011, but the trade was vetoed by commission David Stern. Not many may be aware of it, but Dan Gilbert played a crucial role in making that happen alongside Mark Cuban.
Moving forward, the San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich has a unique rule where he never wants to help teams like the Los Angeles Lakers. As a result, there hasn’t been even a single trade between the Lakers and the Spurs during coach Pop’s era.
At the end of the day, the Lakers still have 17 NBA Championships to their name, but they have certainly made a lot of enemies in the process of doing so.
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