{"id":20620,"date":"2019-05-09T18:35:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=20620"},"modified":"2019-05-09T18:35:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:35:24","slug":"lakers-fans-reportedly-planning-protest-outside-staples-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2019\/05\/09\/lakers-fans-reportedly-planning-protest-outside-staples-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Fans Reportedly Planning Protest Outside Staples Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/nba-teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Los Angeles Lakers<\/a><\/strong>, one of the NBA&#8217;s historic franchises, is in shambles. The team has not made a playoff appearance since 2013 and is currently struggling to find a new head coach. Also, rumors are circulating that people close to Lakers&#8217; President Jeanie Buss wants her to trade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jamesle01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LeBron James<\/a>, who is one of the best players in the world. The sudden dream of the franchise being champions again is quickly going down the drain.<\/p>\n<h2>Lakers Fans Reportedly Planning Protest Outside Staples Center<\/h2>\n<p>Lakers fans are angry with the state of the team and are apparently going to let their frustrations be heard tomorrow. According to Fred Roggin of AM570LA Sports and NBCLA, a group of fans is staging a protest outside of Staples Center Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lakers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Lakers<\/a> fans are so frustrated they\u2019re staging a protest outside of Staples Center tomorrow. When it comes to this, you\u2019re in big trouble.  The organizer will be with us <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AM570LASports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AM570LASports<\/a> at 12:45.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fred Roggin (@FredRoggin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FredRoggin\/status\/1126541252529278976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In addition, there looks like there are additional details on the rally,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/lakers\/comments\/bmct21\/lakers_protest_friday_outside_staples\/?depth=2\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> according to a Lakers fan<\/a> on Reddit. The protest is reportedly set to take place tomorrow at noon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why? Jeannie hates bad PR. She don\u2019t care about us, but cares what the media says. Point is to spin the narrative to the Talking Heads \u201cIs Jeannie the opposite of her Father?\u201d and have them talk,&#8221; the post reads.<\/p>\n<p>The post also informs fans to wear their Lakers gear and bring plenty of chairs and water. Some of the suggested chants for the protest include: &#8220;Sell the team!&#8221;, &#8220;Shadow Owner!&#8221; and &#8220;No <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/coaches\/kiddja01c.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Kidd<\/a>!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If this protest goes through as planned, it will be an interesting scene to watch. This will also generate the attention and answers Lakers fans are desperate to receive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers, one of the NBA&#8217;s historic franchises, is in shambles. The team has not made a playoff appearance since 2013 and is currently struggling to find a new head coach. Also, rumors are circulating that people close to Lakers&#8217; President Jeanie Buss wants her to trade LeBron James, who is one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2853,"featured_media":16069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,62],"tags":[38,152,96],"class_list":["post-20620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lakers","category-nba","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba"],"modified_by":"Stacey Collier II, Associate Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}