If you’re a Lakers fan, what would you do if you were the GM? If you’re a LeBron fan, where would you like to see him end up? If you’re a fan of neither, how happy are you right now?? Lol.

I'm ready for the post Lebron Era.

The Lakers have shot 1104 more free-throws than their opponents the past 2 seasons but somehow people saying the refs screw them over?

"That right there, when i managed to only get gentleman swept by Denver, that made me the Greatest Of All Time" - Lebron James

It's hella good for Wemby that he's not on a team as toxic as the Lakers.

Johnny out here keepen receipts! 🤣

I'm just glad we don't have to hear about the Lakers anymore. Half the attention of the playoffs seems to be just on the Lakers. And watching the series, it seems the announcers mostly talk about the Lakers with relatively little talk of Nuggets players or franchise. Seemed like % of conversation from announcers was: LeBron 35% AD: 20% Other LAL: 10% Total LAL: 65% Total DEN: 35% And DEN are defending champ and favorites this year!

Everyone forgets that when Lebron got to LA everyone said he came to retire and make movies…

I’ve started actually watching full basketball games again after the last few years off (the no defence and constant 3 point shooting drove me nuts). The amount of whining and complaining Lebron did through this series was shocking to me. He’s an entitled baby.

Words of wisdom from Jonny Arnett amidst the pain: “Breaking up with what’s familiar is always hard, but sometimes you just got to do it and allow there to be space to heal. And eventually, there will be a better you in the future.” 💯🙌🏼

Blow it up. If they don't, they'll get LeBron and Bronny and how do you think any coach is going to deal with Bronny while Daddy’s there?

This team needs to get rid of LeBron

Lebron fan here, it just feels like he’s riding the coattails of his success at this point. Looking back at the 2020 championship, that team legitimately looked like they were having fun. Now it just feels like Lebron’s more of a boss and less of leader. Less empowering and more complaining. And that’s why I’m tired of Lebron and this team.

LEBEON being 40 years old for almost half a decade ahahahahha

As a life-time lakers fan, when Lebron sign with lakers at 2018 I already knows that the team will be fuck up after he leaves, but it still sad to see it becomes true.

Pelicans had swap rights on the Lakers first in 2023, so there was no way they were getting Wemby

It's just basketball man

Lakers fan for life. Trade everyone. Rebuild for next 5-7 years

You can't blame Ham. Everyone should know by now that Lebron can't play for anyone other than a puppet coach. Even Kerr would yank him out with his cherry picking while always blaming teammates. Ham tends to always win without Lebron against the best teams. I feel sorry for real Lakers fans for the shit show Lebron has turned this team into.

It's so funny blaming DLO for the Lakers failures when the ONLY difference between him & Jamal Murray this series was Murray had an extra 9 FGA's per game: Murray - 24 ppg on 24 FGA's per game (40%/29%) DLO - 14 ppg on 15 FGA's per game (39%/32%) If DLO was able to shoot 24 shots per game he'd have the same numbers as Murray!!! Same old LeGM season: "Send more help"... LMFAO

As a diehard lakers hater and lebron hater it brings me great joy to watch them both lose in 5 in the first round. Especially because of how much i despise how no one talks about the lakers free throw disparity. That being said i feel bad for their fans, and im just hoping my mavs pull it off vs the clippers

As a nuggets fan and a big fan of your channel, im sorry bluh Opening night Kobe night 40 k lebron night 20 point lead ripped by murry dagger and lakers just flailing I was honestly getting ready for 7 games going in

I've been a Laker fan as long as i have watched basketball which included seeing Majic Johnson as a rookie win the Championship. I remember not wanting Lebron on this team the day i heard he became a Laker. The last time i witnessed greatness on this team was with Kobe Bryant. Lebrons self proclaimed greatness was discusting. Lebron lacks leadership ability and has created a negative void on this team for years. I don't hate Lebron, i just wish he was never a Laker. I can't wait to see what the future holds for this team.

Did you see him threaten that fan? What a freak, it's time for him to find another job

Sorry but LB23 has to go...

As a life long Lakers fan, I agree! We need to move on and start over. If Lebron opts in, then maybe look to trade him and get some assets in return. AD could be traded for a couple very good players as well, or assets.

LeBron James and Anthony Davis never represented what the Los Angeles Lakers is all about. They don’t have the heart to carry the weight of this franchise, because they’re soft and love to make excuses instead of reflecting on their mistakes. LeBron crowns himself as the GOAT without earning it, and AD calls himself the best defender in the league without earning it.

LakerNation, we need to move on. We lost so much young talent for AD and 1 ring. We could have had Wemby if we didnt sign Lebron in 2019 bc we definitely wasnt going to be winning any time soon with Lonzo and Ingram

Respect to Jonny, a real Lakers fan

Lakers should change their culture. There's too much entitlement, too much reliance on using the brand to buy your way to a championship contending team, instead of building a core and finding complementary pieces. I thought it a positive when the Lakers office didn't yield to LeBron's demands at the trade deadline and kept the team it had. Now he'll opt out and, hopefully, Lakers won't waste their pick on LeJunior. Best way forward in short term might be to rebuild around AD and find a solid centre to lower his usage. Also have the scouts do their job and then see if and when to tank the season in order to get the right pieces to build a new championship worthy team that is an actual team and not a bunch of fading stars and hangers on. OKC and Minnesota are great examples of teams who've invested in the future, and copying what San Antonio's been doing forever, it seems, is never a bad thing. Stacked Phoenix are out. Milwaukee don't look like progressing beyond this round. Hopefully the NBA is transitioning from buddy teams to teams built by GMs whose job it actually is, and who see the bigger picture beyond "wouldn't it be great to have these players just because we can."

LeFlop is just a stat packer now. He can't lead a team to a championship anymore. I refuse to count that bubble title as an actual championship.

But what about the In Season Tournament? It was such a meaningful, important accomplishment! 😂😂😂

The Lakers REALLY need to rebuild. Staying with what they have, isn't going to work. So that means rebuild or go all in. EVERY team in the league knows that Lebron's clock is ticking and will charge the Lakers a huge tax for any big trade. That means, all 3 picks that the Lakers have are going to need to be thrown in on any trade that would enable Lebron to get one more season where he plays for stats, blames the refs and ownership, and doesn't box out Aaron Gordon who was the deciding factor in one of the games of the series. Nobody can call Lebron out on this team. Nobody can say: "Dude! Are you going to box this guy out at all? He's killing us!" If this team packages their 3 picks to chase a single ring for a 40 year old I am....actually....after 30 plus years....out. There is no way that this team can rebuild without any draft picks. The idea of people signing with the Lakers because they're the Lakers is long gone. It died with Jerry Buss RIP. The Lakers should have learned this by now after the multiple strikes outs on big free agents over the years.

You hit the nail on the head. I am in the same boat. You are with this team. I’m a Lakers fan for life. I’m not going to switch teams and at first I admit I was really happy when LeBron came to the team, I celebrated the bubble championship. But ever since then a couple of things started happening and I guess it’s because clutch sports and his fans were realizing that OK they still don’t have everyone convinced he’s the go, but his career is almost over and as a diehard Laker fan I’m not going to just cheer him on as clutch sports in his fans, started disrespecting Kobe Bryant’s legacy. When Nick Wright went on TV and started talking about how overrated Kobe was and how he was never the best player in the league, and that stupid ass, efficiency argument, and this was all done to make LeBron look better, it made me sick. Kobe isn’t even here to defend himself. But then, all of the goat debate, bullshit that has been forced down everyone’s throat, Kobe Bryant is my favorite player of all time, but I can’t sit here and say he’s the goat, I can’t make that argument because it’s Michael Jordan as much as I would love to, I just can’t make that argument . That and when you see how the arguments are presented on ESPN and Fox Sports, and it doesn’t take very much research at all to figure out that most of the argument is just have truth and they’re keeping information that is vital to the subject out of it, because it would look better than LeBron and then, when you start realizing this is happening every other week, you realize that there’s a full on movement behind the scenes to disrespect, great players, and their legacies in favor of this guy, LeBron James. And I am tired of being told he’s better than Michael and he’s better than Kobe. When the only reason this guy made it to the finals eight years in a row in the first place is because he was in a garbage Eastern conference, where the next best team behind whatever LeBron James super team, he was currently on at the time was at best decent. The Eastern conference was so bad that you had teams going in during this period he was on the super team, making to the finals every year, That didn’t even have winning records. So when you’ve got teams that are below 500 making the playoffs, of course in that conference a team that has three or four All-Stars/Hall of Famer on it are probably going to go to the finals at every year. But since he came to the western conference that illusion has been shattered. The only year he made it to the finals was the Covid championship year and yes, I still count that as a championship but let’s be realistic. If Covid never happened and that season played out the way it should have been played out. The Lakers probably would not have made it to the finals because the rankings and the seedings would’ve been completely different. I’m tired of LeBron fans saying this guy is so much better than Kobe when Kobe after Shaquille O’Neal left didn’t have a top 75 player with him at any point after that while he was still in his prime. I love Pau Gasol, but he’s not a top 75 player but that’s all Kobe needed to go win the west three years in a row and walk away with two more championships. That western conference in the 2000s that Kobe beat three years in a row was the toughest conference in NBA history if you look at the wins and losses. Look at all the Hall of Famer and all the other great teams that were in the west at this time and Kobe kept going back to the finals but unlike other people he didn’t lose 60% of the time he showed up when he got there. And that’s the other thing are these fake Laker fans that don’t care about the Lakers, they’re only cheering the Lakers because they’re LeBron James is here. If you’re a real Laker fan you’re not going to sit there and disrespect Kobe Bryant or Kareem or Shaquille O’Neal just to make LeBron James look better. If you’re a real Laker fan you’ve seen greatness and you know what you’ve witnessed with LeBron in a Lakers uniform has not been greatness . Even the longevity stuff like the 40,000 points, 80% of those points or 85 to 90% of those points came before he even put a Laker uniform on. And like you as a real Laker fan I just want the LeBron James Circus out of here. I know it could be 10 15,20 years before we win another championship but we’re not going to win with LeBron. LeBron has never won a championship with just one other All-Star. He can’t do it . He never learned to win playoff series, he just learned how to stack the deck. he could not win a championship with just one other All-Star when he was 29 so he’s not going to do it at age 39 either. I’m just ready for him to be off the team so I can start sharing my Lakers again without this bullshit surrounding it.

just rebuild the team i been saying this Bron old Dlo overrrated and our coaching is terrible just move on. and honestly get rid of Rob Pelinka.

As a Lakers fan I want Lebron gone!!!

Very good video, would love to see more current nba materials :))

Another first round loss for the “GOAT”?

I'm sure you're gonna get dragged again by LeBronze fans who can't stand to hear anyone criticize their idol, but he needs to go.

LeBusto can’t even grab a simple rebound late in the game to help the team win. Pure, laziness on defense by LeBusto is the reasons this team lost.

5:01 im Glad we're on the same page Jonny. Lebron had the most toxic fanbase. Yapping as if the Lakers doesn't bring more help to Lebron's shortcomings.

Stats Padder! Calling him the “GOAT” 😂😂🤣

Could not say it better 😂great video

Haven’t watched the NBA since Kobe retired. Good Riddance!

The Lakers are fishing in Gavelston right now...

To be honest, I hated The Lakers under Kobe....... But I respected them.... This Lakers team is just another punching bag.

5:13 Love the comment about the Lebron fans. They will certainly leave when Lebron leaves.

Lebron and ad combined for 70% of the lakers points this series and you wanna talk about them talking a mean game and not backing it up. Thats crazy

When a near 40 shows more heart than the youngsters you know this team is doomed

Thank you for this objective video. Another thing I'm tired of is the fact that a mediocre ball club with a washed up "superstar" that doesn't play defense is getting all of the media coverage over the top teams in the league. The attention should have mostly been on Boston, Minnesota, OKC, Denver, etc. When Jordan was in his Wizards years and not making the playoffs, people had moved onto AI, Paul Pierce, Kobe Bryant, Shaq, Tim Duncan, etc.

I’m ready for the NBA to move on.

Fan of neither. Happy that there is a changing of the guard in these playoffs. Hopefully, your Lakers will get back to their winning ways and competent Front Office work someday.

Haven’t watched for 4 years and definitely will never turn it on again while lebronze is in the league… should have a watch party to boost the ratings for the first game after he retires.

Really making 2020 seem like a fluke in hindsight

The biggest mistake LA made in the last few years was trading for Russ. That 2020 championship core was good, they had to deal with a very short offseason. Arguably, if they don’t blow it up there, LeBron has a 5th ring now. Pelinka did a good job pulling them out of that mud, bringing in a supporting cast that clicked down the stretch of last season. However, this Laker era is officially out of steam, they have to change. P.S. Trading away LeBron and AD 2 years ago in hopes of tanking for Wemby is a borderline indefensible take, total Monday morning quarterbacking

LeBalco will trade his teammates for Jokic's teammates.🤣

100% great takes. Looking forward to the Lakers redemption arc.

4:19 and onward... So nice to hear an honest and objective Lakers fan. You're spot on and if more Lakers fans admitted these truths and were based in reality, people wouldn't hate them as much.

I honestly think it’s best for both parties to split up. Lakers aren’t going to win anything anytime soon with how they’ve constructed their roster, no need to dread the team worse than it already is. If LeBron wants to contend then he has 0 reason to stay in LA, if the Lakers want to eventually want to rebuild and get young talent then having LeBron (and AD) isn’t the go. They won a chip already it’s time to blow it up.

As a LeBron fan, I honestly wanted him to retire as a Cavs, not as a Laker. I don't even want him to be in a Laker uniform tbh, as his rival was a Laker lifer. It's time for him to go back to Cleveland and have his farewell tour started. Maybe he could get another shot with the current roster Cavs have right now.

2:34 I can hear jonhnys smile though the screen 😂

Perfectly stated. I have nothing to add.

I feel your pain, bruh. I'm Golden State faithful and our team issues mirror a lot of your current franchise woes too. It's like watching two Romes go down in flames and seeing duel dynasties come to an end after long rocky reigns. I hold my breath waiting for Mark Phillips channel from 1RDCworld to see what hilarity they can mine from the tragic comedy of our two teams and this long cautionary tale we had called the 2023-24 season.

Lakers will draft Bronny to keep Lebron. Not because it will give them better playoff chances, but because they know Lebron retiring as a Laker will be good for business.

Great video

Flop queen brings only misery. Let him go After all, he is only hollow stats nothing more.

I agree with everything you said👍🏻

Jerry Buss would be pissed if he knew all the Lakers were doing for the past decade was just blowing up the roster just to get a quick fix to the championship. It honestly makes me cringe when they do that and never try to go for the difficult route to win and rebuild.

I’m a lebron fan and I agree. This is a circus and the team has enough talent to do better than what we have been seeing. Trading for kyrie or forming another superteam isn’t the answer. Blow this thing up. What a joke.

PREEEAAAACH!! The only one I truly accept as someone who can speak for all of us lakers fans will always be Jonny Arnett.

Imma bron fan but it's the same thing over and over year after year it's getting tiring all this losing man 🤦🏽

Very nice. The real NBA season has just now started as LeBron got eliminated yet again. Now we can actually talk about basketball and 'all the teams equally' instead of talking about that one narcissist all the time. The NBA can only start its full recovery and healing process after LeBron retires for good.

Even Jack Nicholson didn't attend the games

25 year die hard Lakers fan right here and I agree with every point you just made Johnny. We are TIRED OF IT. The Lakers currently have little to no future assets, their stock is falling as players are aging (LJ & AD), and its the same story every year, excuse after excuse. I'm a huge LJ fan but I'm an even bigger LA fan. The Lakers fanbase doesn't deserve to watch their team end up in NBA purgatory for the next 5+ years because management held on to a sinking ship long past it's expiry date. Take the 2020 championship and MOVE ON. And if the Lakers draft Bronny to appease of a 40 y/o soon to be retired LJ, it is a direct smack in the face to anyone who supports the Lakers brand.

Tbf to me there's something to enjoy in having two of the best players there are in the league be in a team, and compete every season for a playoff spot. The problem with them is that all these years there have always been a relatively lot of teams built better than them, and in a league filled with parity, the Lakers happen to be amongst the less favored. But they really aren't a bad team, nor one not to enjoy come playoff time. I mean, they at least competed and gave an entertaining series against an obviously better team.

As a rockets fan we dont want him over here

The in season is ridiculous. I want to see who wins the Larry O'Brien trophy instead

Lakers are not winning anything for at least 4 years, with AD or without, so selloff and get the most value while they still can get something for the players on the roster. After the tank, and hope some decent picks (from other franchises) LA will always be a premium destination for marquee signings, few years down the road, as between Ant, SGA, Giannis & co there will be interested parties to make Lakers great again, as long as there is cap space and some decent youngsters to play with.

I agree 100% and I've been a Lakers fan all my life

These last years have made it really hard to take the bubble ring seriously

Being an NBA coach has to be the most unpleasant job in this sport. You don't have nearly as much control as in Europe or even enough to achieve something meaningful. Players are doing whatever they want most of the time. When your team succeeds, it's the stars that get praised. If your team fails, it's you who is getting the blame. It's ridiculous.

Is Lebron okay? He seems unhinged

first of all , we wouldn’t have had a chance to get wemby . the pelicans owned the swap . the reason they didn’t swap last year was because we were better than them . if the lakers “blew it up” , we would’ve gave New Orleans wemby or even brandon miller . respectfully know the facts be4 you speak out garbage 💯 second of all , how do you call yourself a fan of the lakers and just simply trash AD like your Stephen A smith or sumin ? this man helped us win a title . has this duo been underwhelming ? yes but let’s not act like it’s been a complete failure . and 3rd of all , Lebron James came to this team wen he could’ve went where he wanted but he took a chance on making this team great again after every other superstar didnt want to come here because of the bias nature and legacy of Kobe Bryant and the lakers in general . he took on the challenge and won . that should be appreciated more by us fans and i love lakers fans . i can honestly say this is the best franchise that bron has ever been apart of . however this weird narrative that bron is ruining the team has to stop . he helped saved the lakers because the lakers were not going anywhere anytime soon if he didn’t come there .😅

Agreed. Except we real Lakers consider that *bubble ring an actual title. It's half a step above the NBA Cup title.

As a Sonics fan and hates the lakers and LeBron this makes me crack up in big time laughter. LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lebron better not get a statue in LA, I’ll consider switching teams.

I think you guys are spoiled. Lakers have a championship this decade and already made a very close run last season. Maybe they're not as good as everyone wanted, definitely not for my tastes either, but they're hardly a lottery team. Yeah, winning is the most important thing though. You can't accept falling short, but it hasn't been a very long time. It can seem that way, but it hasn't been. The fans are honestly worse than the players by a lot.

Ohhh nooooo my boy !!! It’s gonna be alright!!!

I think it’s really funny how Jonny’s last 2 videos were “Can the Lakers come back from an 0-3 deficit?” and then “I’m done with the Lakers” lol

I've been a Laker fan since I was 5 years old in 2002. I've seen the highest of highs and the lowest of lows with the Lakers. No matter what, I'll always rep purple & gold. With that said, I am grateful for what LeBron has done for the Lakers, but it's time to move on. Every mistake you can think of that the Lakers made during the LeBron era all stims back to appeasing LeBron. Sometimes it works, the 2020 championship roster was built around LeBron's needs and they got AD for him as well. But most of the time, it doesn't work. Trading away that championship roster to get Westbrook, keeping THT and letting Caruso and Howard walk away, hiring Ham over Lue, drafting JHS over Jaime Jacquez Jr and Cam Whitmore. Even if LeBron isn't calling the shots himself, you can't deny that LeBron has a lot of influence over Pelinka's decisions. If they use their 17th pick to draft Bronny, just to appease LeBron yet again, I don't think I'll be paying much attention to the Lakers after that. No knock on Bronny, but he is NOT ready for the NBA yet and that spot could be used for another player that is.

100% accurate. The Buss family needs to sell now.

6 years, 1 ring (that the haters won’t even acknowledge), more first round exits than conference final appearances

Darvin Ham failed on so many levels. The Taurean Prince experiment was a fireable offense. Ham has been the best coach for the opposing team all 82 regular season games plus the playoff.

I’m a lakers fan and was a big fan of lebron and I really believe we need to move on from lebron we ain’t winning no more championships with lebron as his only getting older and struggles to play a full game and he flat out doesn’t play any defence I think it’s time to move on from lebron and look at maybe Donovan Mitchell and try and get some decent role players and two way players and the first person who needs to go obviously is darvin Ham

1:58 you raise a good point about AD I don’t remember who said it but someone did say he’s not an Alpha player the type that can lead a team on its own

I was looking forward to moving on from this era of Laker basketball, then we extended AD. Buckle in guys, the light at the end of the tunnel is LIGHTYEARS away.

I like your basketball perspective and I know this is your rival but you think the Celtics finally have enough to win it all this year?

How “disastrous” was this really? The only “disaster” was Dlo in game 3. Everyone knew the Nuggets were better. It feels like more of a surprise only because the Lakers managed to make it interesting. Lebron and AD showed up and showed out every game. Lebron is not leaving LA. If his play remains this good and AD is as healthy as he is, they just need a slightly better roster.

As a bron fan but being objective the lakers need to if u wanna still contend build around ad and get a good second option preferably dejounte Murray or less so Zach Lavine and round out a good 8-9 man rotation or get rid of both and suck for 5-15 yrs

some fans were complaining WHERE IS THE FOUL on Prince hail mary 3. Lol