Has any franchise been cucked more by FA's than the Lakers?

[NuggetsFan]

Yeah this is recent. All-Time Lakers have signed the best FA's no doubt. It's actually kinda crazy. They've won rings because of FA. I wonder what's changed lately. Usually you just need L.A to sell it. Maybe with twitter, 24/7 media cycle, pressure of L.A it's not the advantage it once was. Some guys may prefer to travel to L.A for a couple weeks as opposed to living there. Following in Kobe's shadow could play a part. Everybody wanting to team up and win rings can't help. Nobody wants to wait 4 years.

[IllegalD]

Yeah this is recent. All-Time Lakers have signed the best FA's no doubt. It's actually kinda crazy. They've won rings because of FA. I wonder what's changed lately. Usually you just need L.A to sell it. Maybe with twitter, 24/7 media cycle, pressure of L.A it's not the advantage it once was. Some guys may prefer to travel to L.A for a couple weeks as opposed to living there. Following in Kobe's shadow could play a part. Everybody wanting to team up and win rings can't help. Nobody wants to wait 4 years.

No they haven't.

Spoken like a true 15 year old that knows nothing about Lakers history.

Signing someone like Shaq in free agency has been the outlier exception, not the rule. Lakers have built most of their championship success through the draft (Magic, Kobe, West, Worthy) and via trades (Wilt, Kareem, Gasol, Odom). If you want to say Kobe was a "trade" because we traded for his draft rights instead of drafting him outright it still applies.

[IMObjective]

And no one who's actually good wants to sign with a team that doesn't have a playoff roster already, no matter how big or attractive the market is. The Lakers will have to build a playoff team first, without relying on free agents, before the free agents start rolling in again.