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Lakers Banner Hanging Brings Reactions
Sports Illustrated
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12/19/2023
The Los Angeles Lakers hung the In-Season Tournament banner, much to the chagrin of many NBA fans on social media.
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That Lakers in-season tournament banner should say "You Mad" on it because people are not
00:04
taking kindly to it being hung.
00:06
No, it shouldn't be up there, bro.
00:10
Listen, and I feel like seeing it visually made it that much worse.
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That's hung up there with banners that have been hung by Magic and Wilt and Kobe and Shaq,
00:20
LeBron as champions.
00:23
I just feel like hanging that banner is such a false equivalency.
00:27
And those championship banners are what make the mystique around the Lakers what it is.
00:31
And if you look at how a lot of those players are defined by fans, by other players as some
00:36
of the best all-time greats ever, just because they hung championship banners, that in-season
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tournament was just...
00:44
No, bro.
00:45
No, I hated it.
00:46
I don't like that at all.
00:47
They should have never hung that.
00:49
There's no downside now that it's done.
00:50
I get it.
00:51
I get the visceral reaction because it's new and because what the Lakers have accomplished
00:56
in the past.
00:57
But it's clear the NBA wanted this to be treated like a serious thing.
01:01
And it's not going to be a serious thing unless it is treated seriously.
01:04
And by the way, a banner is not that big a deal.
01:06
I mean, the Lakers have put a Taylor Swift one up in the rafters.
01:10
I know the Nets aren't the Lakers, but they got Jay-Z selling out Barclays Center banners.
01:14
It's really, in some ways, it's the worst thing for this tournament that it's next to
01:18
all those other Lakers championships.
01:21
But I think going forward, in many ways, it will be the best thing for this tournament
01:25
that the Lakers were the first to do it.
01:27
And it will be hung up in those rafters.
01:28
Nah, I'm going to keep clowning it.
01:31
And the fact that the Lakers won it first is even more of a reason to clown it.
01:35
They should take it down immediately.
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