Mind the Game podcast<\/a> prior to training camp kicking off around the league, LeBron James spoke about his time in Los Angeles and brought up the fact that the Lakers never really got to celebrate their title.<\/p>\n\u201cIt bothers me, [on a scale of] 1-10, 20. Just to be able to celebrate with the Laker faithful. I don\u2019t know what the route would have been. I\u2019m thinking go down Olympic, just all the way down Olympic and then end up downtown right by Staples Center. Everybody want to call it Crypto but it\u2019s Staples Center to me. It would have been super, duper dope. But we did that. We did that and that banner\u2019s up there. That banner\u2019s in that arena forever along with the other ones that\u2019s been able to go up in the history of the Lakers franchise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even if the Lakers wanted to celebrate, the league didn\u2019t exactly give them much time to do it. Their six-week offseason didn\u2019t exactly lend itself to much time to plan things.<\/p>\n
Now, it\u2019s hard to imagine a scenario where they get to ever truly celebrate the title. Perhaps in the future if\/when the Lakers win another title, they can have members of the 2020 team tag along. But would it feel the same?<\/p>\n
It would likely have to happen in the distant future as it\u2019s hard to imagine LeBron being on a different team and celebrating a title in LA with the Lakers. Hopefully, though, it\u2019s something the team has to contemplate in the future because that 2020 team does deserve to be celebrated and given it\u2019s flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given how divisive it is, there will never be a uniform opinion on the Lakers\u2019 2020 title. What…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,87289,459,82],"class_list":["post-918703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lakers-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}