Is it championship or bust for the Lakers this season? | First Take 

No they ain't. They got his son

Idk why people don’t understand they get the most views when they talk about the lakers 🤣 when they talk about Denver it gets like 5k views don’t nobody care unfortunately

They talk about the Lakers because they sell. The Lakers had 7 of the top 10 most watched games of the regular season. They also have 1 of the greatest players ever on their roster, who was number 2 in jersey sales last year. As long as those numbers hold, the Lakers will be a part of every conversation

Sports shows will always talk about the Lakers, Cowboys, and Yankees, because those are the most popular teams. More fans means more clicks etc. If you want them to cover your Wizards or Jazz, let them win 17 championships and then they’ll get talked about too.

I mean it's the lakers also lebron is in there. that's why no neck guy is hatin' to be the bad cop in the conversation

All The Media Outlets and RU-vid Experts Are Using The Lakers To Get Views / Otherwise Nobody Cares

You understand the Lakers sell, right? They were the highest viewed team last year, and LeBron is 2nd in jersey sales. People complain they don't wanna hear about the Lakers, yet they watch them.

@@justified004 The League Media is going to be dead soon because rather than focus on the future and promote the best players in the League (Jokic, Luka, Giannis) the League keeps putting out garbage about Bron and the Lakers. It's not good for the League even if it temporarily gets them some clicks for a few more years

I'm an absolute die hard Lakers fan and it has beyond annoyed me. Even bothering the s outta me

I'm a Lakers fan 2 I'm tired of the what ifs too don't worry the whole front office is going to be fired especially Rob pelinka English number one on out the door list he might not make it through the 20 2425 season time for a new general manager and president for are Lakers

Espn are a joke. They are slowly turning me into a lebron hater after being a fan of him for many years. They are just making others dislike him even more

@@jcvelez915so way listen to it then lmao you aren't being forced. It's ridiculous how much they talk about bron but he is the face if the league. Imagine mj in this generation with all the gambling and stuff. It's just stupid they have nothing to talk about. But if that makes you hate him that's weird it's not like him tells them to talk about him. Aren't you grown

LeBron and AD have already won a championship. If it happened once it could happen again, just gotta put the right pieces around them and hopefully avoid the paper champion Nuggets.

and the cowboys haven't won since since 95... yet they're always making the headlines and somebody like you always comments this. It's been happening for 30 years and you guys do the same thing over and over and over and over again.

Some Goat

They constantly have to talk about bron or lakers or their ratings are a dumpster fire 😂

🤣🤣🤣 “bots” greatest common on here

Yall both clicked in the video and have for a while.thats why it's in your feed.dont want to see it,stop clicking

@@shaneshonda This ^^^.

A play-in team that literally made no moves but talking about “can they win a chip” like cmon

There’s a way. LeBron and AD are elite. Reaves Rui Dlo and Vando are solid role players. They have 3 first round picks to trade, if they can upgrade the roster a little that could put them over the top. The Nuggets have stomped them lately, but they’re getting worse, the Lakers can close that gap if they make the right move or two.

@@erikdayne5429I feel u bro but rob pelinka seem like he has been sleeping

@@erikdayne5429 if they are over the second apron the picks are frozen so they cant trade them

It's NBA records or bust. He hasn't cared about winning since he left for Cleveland. Barely then. That bubble chip was luck. No one in mgmt will stand up to LeGM. 40 yo LeFlop and AD ...this will be fun to watch them lose again.

but you're here helping them generate revenue. Ironic goofy

​@@JurgenMiHoffYour logic is nonexistent. Imagine defending this joke of a company.

​@@mattr27 💯 There is always a goofy lequeen fan defending ESPN LeBron and the goofy B's that is "sports media"

@@mattr27 imagine liking your own comment after a failed attempt to justify your own mental state

​@@JurgenMiHoffLmao, you're coping so bad you had to convince yourself I liked my own comment. Whatever helps you sleep at night.

@@markjones2518 other teams making great trades?

Lakers $$$$$

You clearly don't understand network TV and ad dollars then lol.

@@MB-go6uy yeah I guess I don't.

They didn’t have the cap space to sign a top free agent. They only had the mid level exception which was around $13 million.

​@erikdayne5429 my man lebron agreed to take a pay cut clay Thompson turned down the offer nobody wants to join the team all thanks to jennie buss and palinka and lebron and the circus they turned the franchise into

@@mannyrangel5803Thompsons trash. Lakers dumb even going for his choking @$$. If he couldn’t even help his Warriors beat this Lakers team, why did LA go for him? No clue

@user-jm8bj1hd3d all of a sudden he trash🤣my guy you would of been the first one all over Thompson nuts if he would of came to the lakers 😂🤣

Caitlyn Clark

the cowboys still, the current knicks roster and maybe the yankees

LeBron retiring

“Angel Reese had 13 points and 8 rebounds isn’t she fantastic”

When lebron retires a lot of people are going to celebrate including me soo tired of lebron overated mofo and his 4ppg son

Bet if he was on a next team you be throwing shade you only saying that cause he's on your team 🙄🙄

Then all the Lebron fanboys should stop blaming everyone else around him when the Lakers not winning. Like you said, Lebron is OLD and slowly decline, but the Lebron fans are still acting like hes a top 5-10 players. Well, if you are a top 10 player, and your teammate is also another top 10 player, then competing for a championship is the expectation.

​@tigera6 if you wanna say ad is top 10 and lebron top 15 that's fair but basketball is a 5 on 5 sport. Lebron and ad can average 30 a game but you still gonna need 50 at least from the supporting cast.

Bubble championship. Big ***********

I really don’t get the LeBron hate. He’s never had any off court issues. 20 years in the league and he’s never even gotten a parking ticket. He plays the game the right way, he’s not a ball hog like Harden, he actually passes the ball, makes the right play and sets up his teammates. He’s never quit on a team and demanded a trade, he’s always played out his contracts and only switched teams as a free agent. Yeah he tries to get his teams to make moves to improve but that’s because he wants to win, that’s not a bad thing, and it works as he’s won a championship with every team he’s played on. He compares himself to Jordan but that’s not a bad thing either. Kobe was the ultimate competitor and people love him for it, LeBron wants to be the goat and that makes him a villain? He’s a great player who plays the game the right way and doesn’t have any issues off the court. You can root against him but the disrespect just seems like mindless hate.

IN season champions or bust, much better caption 😂😅.

Yeah they brought back the same team because the plan was to build chemistry and then Ham kept switching up the lineup so they couldn’t actually build chemistry. If Redick picks a starting lineup and sticks to it that will already be an improvement over Ham.

is it the front office? do players not wanna play for the organization or do they not wanna play with lebron?

Fax

Nobody wanted the coaching job nobody wants to come sign in LA yet ESPN still reporting on them like they are relevant in the West. Extra Special Pathetic Nonsense network

So you mean how Boston won this year.

They still not gonna win even if players get injured

​@natureredux1957 That's how the Warriors won their first title and how Lebron beat the warriors so injuries helping is nothing new.

@@Maxrepfitgmor how warriors beat bron in 2015

​​​@@natureredux1957Big difference in talent between LA and Boston. 😂 Celtics were beating those teams, healthy lineups all year. Lakers would need an absolute miracle. Boston had the talent to back it up either way.

They would’ve beaten them if they were healthy brain cell.

@@williecatch9 you're fuccin stupid if you think randle and OG were gonna be enough to stop Boston. Boston was on a mission and nobody was stopping them

@@williecatch9tired narrative. Celtics had the best overall team in the association.

The majority of monica's takes are bad or moderate takes. She diverts a lot of times by asking simple questions to the other. DEI is strong with ESPN

@@JurgenMiHoff Stop sucking exhaust pipes. That stuff kills brain cells.

No coach or player worth their time wanted to come to LA. Dude AIN"T THE GOAT and that bubble ring def not worth the downslide after

Yeah..that must be it😂

If you are AD who is taking on that massive contract then hoping the total games played is north of 50?

Give him credit for the bubble. He didn’t bring Kyrie to Cleveland. He don’t get credit in Miami when he wanted to fire Spo.