Basketball isn’t as big in Germany as it is in the United States, but when the Los Angeles Lakers drafted Moe Wagner this summer, his friends started sending him pictures of old Lakers jackets and t-shirts they had dug out of their closets to celebrate.
In that moment, Wagner realized just how far his new team’s reach went.
”The Lakers everyone knows, even if you’re not a basketball fan. Even in Germany,” Wagner said at Lakers media day. “It’s pretty cool, and pretty amazing to be part of such a historic franchise.”
If you’ve been paying attention, every rookie (except Deandre Ayton) says excited stuff like that on media day.