Jeanie Buss: Top 5 most important Laker players

[Hater]

How are people outraged over Laker hater and Capper executive Jerry West not being on there

This man been disrespecting the Lakers/Buss family for years. Of course she gon feel some type of way

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

Kobe and Magic will never been surpassed by a transient

In today’s society where old shyt gets disrespected on, I could see perception saying he passed Magic

 

[Mars]

You literally bashed Jeanie dumb nikka... she signed LeBron and brought the Lakers back.. so ur comment is dumb as fukk.

If we're being honest, Jeanie did not play a big role in acquiring Lebron or AD.....Lebron wanted to finish his career as a Laker..... Kobe/Magic gave Lebron their blessings....AD (Clutch client) followed Lebron to LA......It's a well-known fact that Jeanie Buss takes advice from Phil Jackson and Linda Rambis......Kobe/Magic deserves more credit for Lebron signing with LA than Jeannie.

 

[hjnm]

LeBron still is way down in the rankings even if they win again this year but they're retiring his jersey either way.

 

[Sweet Pea]

No Elgin, Jerry, or Shaq . I could understand Jerry not being listed because him and her boo Phil had problems and he’s with the Clippers now. But no Elgin? He was part of the foundation of the Lakers popularity in LA after they moved from Minneapolis.

It should be
Elgin
West
Magic
Kobe
Kareem/Shaq

And Mikan should be there too if we’re counting the Minneapolis days.

 

[TaxCollector13459]

no Shaq

Bron already

Phil Jackson before Shaq

This shyt shameful. How you leave a 3x finals mvp off your list?

 

[daboywonder2002]

Stop listening to these non professional Twitter outlets. The question was top 5 most important Lakers. She was nervous having to think off the top. Matt was saying names to her. He's the one that said Phil. Then Buss agreed.

 

[murksiderock]

no Shaq

Bron already

Phil Jackson before Shaq

Five most important Lakers?

West, Magic, and Kobe are all lifetime Lakers who helped sustain the franchise's success and popularity in their runs. The order of those three really doesn't matter, though ageism would play a factor into how you rank those three; those are the Big 3 Lakers though...

The bottom two is where it gets tricky:

•Mikan was the first great Laker, The League's first superstar, and ran The League's first dynasty. The argument against Mikan would be that he didn't play in LA, but the counter to thar would be its the same organization anyway and they retired his jersey anyway...

•Baylor was the next Laker superstar and truly one of the first black superstars. My issue with Elgin is I'm not sure he was good enough to warrant inclusion. He's damn near a career #2 and of all the great players to wear a Lakers uniform, he aint Top 5 if we just saying whose "best". He was the bridge from Mikan's era to when Logo matured though, and sustained their popularity....

•the case against Wilt is easy to me, he only played in LA 5 years and the best versions of Wilt Chamberlain came before he was a Laker. On the flip, Baylor and West couldn't win the title until Wilt--->who had won a title without them--->showed up, so him being the chief reason they won a championship for the first time in 18 years matters...

•the argument against Kareem is that the Lakers weren't winning anything until Magic showed up, he was there 4 years before Magic and they weren't sniffing a Finals. He still played 14 years in LA though and set numerous records while in a Laker jersey...

•Shaq later became a journeyman but his best versions of himself were as a Laker. He didn't win until Kobe matured but his case is pretty credible to me...

•LeBron has only been in LA three years, that alone makes him the biggest question mark on here. The argument for Bron though would be resurrecting the franchise from years of losing...

•you have other Lakers like Goodrich or Worthy you can make an argument for but those guys really weren't good enough to warrant inclusion...

Shaq probably gets the 4th spot to me. 5 is a coin flip with Kareem and Mikan, can't really choose. Everyone else is assed out...

 

[McPiff]

LeBron resurrected the lakers he belongs there

if he wins another ring and crosses kareem's points record , he will become the 2nd most iconic laker of all time

Ahead of Magic or Kobe ?

 

[Captain Crunch]

Jerry and Phil had some beef there at the end, that's probably why

Phil prolly still hitting that too, that's why she left out West

 

[smitty22]

No shot this shyt is real. Phil never even played in LA.

Shameful shyt

Looks like s Ohio player bout to have a statue out in front of your teams arena. Your whole sports teams standom is ran by Ohio Players. Don’t need you to reply with a 10 paragraph juelz message. Just dap and rep me dodo. O-H....... Now you reply I-O

 

[fifth column]

West
Magic
Kareem
Shaq
Kobe

in no particular order

 

[Tunez]

She probably ranked them by dikk size

 

[staticshock]

This section hates Shaq but now y’all are camping for him

 

[Darts]

Unpopular statement: Kobe and Phil were more important to the 3 peat than Shaq.