The Los Angeles Lakers added a new forward and a whole bunch of dad jokes to their roster on Friday.
The team signed forward Taurean Prince, most recently of the Minnesota Timberwolves, to a 1-year deal, which pairs him with forward LeBron James.
As you have well now, people call James “the King,” and Prince is the new Laker’s last name. Los Angeles has officially added … a Prince to the King.
If you think this joke is royally good, then we’ve got you covered. Twitter immediately found the clever wordplay and ran with it in a nice bundle of tweets.
Will this joke get run into the ground? Probably, but it’s just too obvious to pass up right after news broke of Prince’s signing.
Free agent F Taurean Prince has agreed to a 1-year, $4.5 million deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, his agents Steven Heumann and Richie Beda of @CAA_Basketball tell ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 30, 2023
Yes, everyone made the same joke. Prepare yourself, because there’s going to be a lot of references to this combo once the Lakers season gets going in October.