5 Reasons For Los Angeles Lakers Fans To Be Thankful In 2016

This Thanksgiving, there’s a lot more for Los Angeles Lakers fans to be thankful for than there was only a year ago.

If you’re a Los Angeles Lakers fan, there’s a lot to be thankful for right now. Although the team currently is 8-7 on the season, what we’ve seen this year has been a major improvement on anything we witnessed during the 2015-16 campaign.

As crazy as it seems, some folks are even talking about the Lakers being a potential playoff team in 2016-17. While I wouldn’t go anywhere close to calling them contenders, it’s not asinine to think they could earn one of the final seeds in the Western Conference before all is said and done.

But that’s still months away. Right now, we’re focused on the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. It’s a time when we’re supposed to reflect on things we’re thankful for. And as previously mentioned, there’s plenty that fits into that category when it comes to the Lakers.

The future looks bright for this franchise. They hit rock bottom a season ago, but now is time for one of the NBA’s most storied teams to return to relevance.

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With that in mind, here are five things all Lakers fans should be thankful for in 2016.