Bob Iger video resurfaces on why rooting for Lakers not in my DNA

The Los Angeles Lakers have new ownership for the second time in 14 months.Mark Walter sold his majority stake in the iconic NBA franchise to businessmen Bob Iger and Josh Kushner for a staggering $12.5 billion.Now that Iger and Kushner have taken center stage, Lakers fans are keen to know about their respective backgrounds.They’re not going to like comments Iger made about his NBA fandom during a 2021 interview on “The Old Man and The Three” podcast, which have resurfaced on Reddit on Wednesday.When speaking about his relationship with Chris Paul and his involvement in the notorious NBA bubble in Florida during the COVID 2020 season, Iger said, “I am a Clippers fan.

Having moved from New York to Los Angeles back in 2000, and being a big NBA fan, I needed a team to root for.And in my youth, the Lakers were a big rival of the Knicks, the team I grew up rooting for.

So I couldn’t root for the Lakers very easily; it just was not in my DNA.“So I decided to adopt the Clippers, which was actually a good thing, because their seats were a lot cheaper than the Lakers,” Iger added.Given that Iger has a net worth of of $600 million, he probably could have afforded courtside season tickets at Lakers games back then if he had wanted.

But it doesn’t matter now, since Iger will have any seat in the house he wants for the team he now owns.One would also assume (or at least hope) that his fandom will flip from the Clippers to the Lakers as well, if it hasn’t already....