Lakers Banner Hanging Brings Reactions

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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00:00 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.

00:14 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

00:43 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.