Few things are more consistent across all of sports than the Lakers’ insistence on striving for peak weirdness in everything they do.
Most teams with a $47 million point guard already on the roster would make do with a backup at that position who, say, doesn’t outwardly mock the guy who’ll likely be starting ahead of him.
After making what might be their biggest acquisition of the offseason, most teams would make their chief basketball executive available to answer questions about the trade and the offseason to that point alongside said trade target.
At that press conference, most teams might have some collection of players present to kick off that acquisition’s tenure, sure.