LA Lakers: Are they worse at basketball or protesting?

This is the third blog post I’ve made now about the Los Angeles Lakers in the past three days. That’s absolutely unheard of on my part. But when the team you cannot stand crumbles before your eyes after they were celebrated as champions when Lebron decided he’d rather make movies than take basketball seriously.

Everyone other than the 10 people at this Lakers “protest” has to be watching at this and just laughing out loud. Even some of these revolutionaries can’t help but chuckle to themselves as they call for Kurt Rambis’ head on a silver platter.

If you’re Jeanie Buss or Kurt Rambis, where do you go after this? A post on r/Lakers relaying plans for a protest outside Staples Center gathered 8,300 likes and nearly 900 comments just a day ago. Now it seems that the hundreds of people who were all-aboard for a protest have decided to stay home. Jeanie Buss and Kurt Rambis have to be lounging by the pool outside their Brentwood homes just laughing at these schmucks.

Imagine seeing the post on r/Lakers yesterday and planning your day around this protest. You lay out your old Kobe Bryant jersey and cancel all your plans. It’s time to make a difference. You set an alarm for early in the morning. You want to get a good spot, somewhere you can be seen on television. You plan on screen grabbing your brief appearance on local news. You need a new Twitter profile picture and finally, you’ll get one. Morning comes and you get a good breakfast. Got to be fueled for a long day of protesting. You throw on your Kobe jersey and your Nike Cortez and head out the door. You fight the LA traffic during the long drive from San Bernadino to the steps out the Staples Center, only to find five other people as foolish as you. At least you’ll get that new Twitter picture.

It really makes you feel great about the state of your team if you cheer for any of the NBA’s 29 other teams. Boston fans, your star player gave up mid-series and you got embarrassed by the Bucks? At least you’re not the Lakers. Kings fan, haven’t made the playoffs in 13 years? At least you know how to protest outside the Golden 1 Center. Even Suns fans showed up just to dance on the grave of the Lakers.

The Lakers are falling apart and I’m here for every single second of it.

P.S. You’ve got to feel bad for Jason Kidd after this train wreck. All the guy wants to do is be a coach in the NBA and despite having no affiliation at all with the Lakers, fans already hate him.