Early in the offseason the Los Angeles Lakers received plenty of calls inquiring about Brandon Ingram, who improved drastically over the second half of his rookie season.
Lakers president of basketball operations Magic Johnson deemed Ingram untouchable, as he had no desire to trade the purple and gold’s brightest young star at the time.
While the would be flattering to many players knowing that their front office is 100 percent behind them, Ingram looked at it in a different way. In a recent interview with Lakers Reporter Mike Trudell, Ingram address Johnson’s comments about him being untouchable, saying that hearing it made him want to work even harder, motivating him in a sense:
“When you really think about it, it shouldn’t make you comfortable at all.