It’s official: After several years of pathetic play, pathetic players, bad front-office leadership and enough doubt to fill the Grand Canyon, the Los Angeles Lakers are headed to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2010!
It took a team effort from top to bottom to rebuild what seemed like a joke of an organization just a few years ago.
First, controlling owner Jeanie Buss fired then-executive vice president of basketball operations Jim Buss and replaced him with team legend Magic Johnson in early 2017.
It was this cleaning of house, along with the accumulation of blue-chippers such as Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball and Kyle Kuzma that attracted one LeBron James to sign as a free agent in 2018.