Former Laker has the ultimate answer on which NBA franchise is the 'America's team'

While the NFL Dallas Cowboys are known to be that league's America's team. For the NBA, the question has been, which franchise could be considered to be America's team, but no team has ownership of the label quite like the Cowboys.

This has started a debate, but now, former Lakers player Stanley Johnson has given his answer on the matter, trying to say there's no other option but the purple and gold.

Despite having many teams that are extremely popular in both America and the world, the NBA has never had a defined American team. It has shifted over time depending on several factors. The Chicago Bulls during the Michael Jordan era fit this description, as did the Golden State Warriors for a time when their current dynasty was first beginning.

But the Lakers have been the team that has been more dominating once Dr. Jerry Buss bought the franchise, as is the only NBA team to win at least once in each decade. Johnson argues that the Lakers are truly America's team, believing there's no other team like LA.

Stanley Johnson thinks the Lakers are America's team

"The Lakers is. What would it be? The Celtics? No one thinks the Knicks... New generation guty think about the Warriors first." Said Johnson in the Run Your Race podcast.