Basically any time Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball, Josh Hart — or honestly any player the Lakers drafted after their few seasons of tanking — plays well, a referendum takes place on whether this iteration of the roster was worth the departure of an otherwise fun young core.
The thing is, though: The point of this whole thing is to win championships. Anthony Davis and LeBron James helped the Lakers do just that. So from that standpoint, there really isn’t any debating whether this season was enough of a bummer to forego the Lakers’ 17th championship ring.