The Los Angeles Lakers have made some excellent selections in the NBA Draft in the team’s history. In fact, the Lakers have had three first overall picks in team history and all three went on to be Hall of Famers. They are the only team in the league to do that.
While there have been Laker legends to come from the NBA Draft, there have also been great players that the Lakers have drafted that carved out a nice career elsewhere.
Most of the times the players end up on a different team because of a trade, but there are some examples of some drafted Lakers whose best days came away from the franchise that picked them.