LeBron James has agreed to play for the Los Angeles Lakers next season. That sentence is almost unbelievable to write, especially after watching the last several years full of (mostly) bad and listless basketball until last year’s group of fun overachievers.
Still, plucky overachievers don’t normally lure superstars, and the Lakers normally aren’t considered plucky. For nearly as long as the franchise has existed, it’s been the big, bad villain looming over the rest of the NBA, coming to cities across the country to crush their teams have fun while doing it.
Beginning with George Mikan and most recently passing down to Kobe Bryant, LeBron is now the latest in a long line of superstars to try and take on that tradition.