Jeanie Buss recently said that signing LeBron James in free agency reminded her of when the Lakers, then led by her father and Jerry West, lured Shaq away from Orlando. The magnitude of the moves are surely similar even if only from a name-brand standpoint, to say nothing of the comparisons between both superstars coming to teams who had gone through (relative) down periods but had shown to be a team on the rise the season before their arrival.
Tack on ramped up expectations and the presumed trajectory of the team in the aftermath of the signing, and the comps are eerily similar even while acknowledging the difference in the respective stages of their hall of fame careers both players joined the team.