Former Lakers guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope believes the championship-winning 2020 Lakers core would have won at least two more titles if they had kept the team together, which would’ve settled the GOAT debate between LeBron James and Michael Jordan.
The Los Angeles Lakers have only one player remaining from their 2020 NBA championship-winning team: 40-year-old LeBron James, who remains the main star in LA alongside the city’s new superstar, Luka Doncic.
Now, five years later, we can only imagine what might have happened if that Lakers core had stayed together longer.
Current Orlando Magic guard, and a key piece of the 2020 Lakers team, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope believes the core should have remained intact and that they could have won at least two more championships.
“That team, we had a lot of moments where everything just clicked for us,” Caldwell-Pope said on the Above the Rim podcast. “Off the court, on the court, inviting each other to our houses, we were just hanging out with each other.
Those were my brothers, I spent more time with my team than my family… I think if we kept that team together, we would’ve run off two more,” KCP stated.
KCP has no doubt that those two additional championships would have put LeBron James above Michael Jordan in the GOAT debate.
“There would be no more GOAT talk, that would’ve put [LeBron] at six,” he said.
