What do you mean both ways? The Lakers have a history (a recent history) of acquiring the talent and doing what it takes to win immediately instead of sitting around for 10-20 (almost 40 in your case) years talmbout "We in a rebuilding phase

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Jerry West can't help y'all, y'all aren't the Lakers
The fact is, we made the necessary moves recently (Chris Paul, bringing in Dwight, Steve Nash) but we've made mistakes (D'antoni, Mike Brown, instead of Shaw or Phil) and had bad luck with injuries
As much as we shyt on our own front office, most of the league hasn't come close to doing better. Thus is the woat LAKER front office (in it's infancy), not the overall worst