What the hell even is a “Laker”?
I realize that the team moved to Los Angeles from Minneapolis, a city in Minnesota, a state that some call “the Land of 10,000 Lakes.” Even ignoring the outrageous mental gymnastics needed to come to that conclusion, what even is a “Laker” though?
Is it someone who goes to a lake? I go to Squam Lake in New Hampshire every summer, but not one person has ever called me a Laker, nor is my extended family a collection of Lakers. Is it the lake itself, some weird personification of the 11,842 lakes in the state that no longer even has the team?