"One thing people don’t understand about Laker fandom is that winning is kind of a minor thing; admittedly, this abstraction is easier to pull off if your team is winning a lot. The bigger thing is simply being a Laker fan, which means car flags and Jack Nicholson and a sense of superiority, but also means being connected to Los Angeles. No team is more L.A. than the Lakers. Los Angeles is the city where movies are made, a place where massive and irresponsible dreams either come true or spectacularly don’t. It is a city built on stories: individual and collective, real and fake, meaningful and inconsequential. This is why, maybe the only reason why, Ramon Sessions can seem important for a few months in spring."