This was easily the most anticipated Los Angeles Lakers media day in almost two decades, since 1996, when Shaquille O’Neal was signed as a free agent and Kobe Bryant was drafted. There is for one reason, for it, and that was the first time LeBron James would officially be in a Lakers uniform.
The media flocked to LeBron on Monday in a crowd that seemed as big as the one that surrounded Tiger Woods at the Tour Championship the day before.
There is a different buzz around this year’s Lakers squad because they are expected to make a big comeback as a franchise as Woods has on the course.