Over the past several years, NBA free agents like LeBron James, Kevin Durant and plenty of others have chosen to sign with new teams and received varying levels of backlash from the public.
While the Los Angeles Lakers haven’t managed to recruit any of them yet, team owner Jeanie Buss has taken note of the vitriol some of those players have received for their choices.
Fans have burned the jerseys of free agents that spurned them, taken to social media to harass them and everything in between when their franchise star decided to change workplaces, a situation that would only happen in sports, where people assign far deeper meaning to a job change than any other industry.