Los Angeles Lakers fans are protesting the team’s terrible decision-making, which means now is the best time to review those terrible decisions. I present the official 2018-19 Los Angeles Lakers Dumpster-Fire Power Rankings.

7. The Ball family gets swindled by a Big Baller Brand executive

It was a novel idea for LaVar Ball to cut out the middle man and create a personal brand for his son, Lonzo, so they could reap the rewards of his fame rather than share them with Nike. It was not such a great idea to hire a guy who spent five years in prison for defrauding investors of millions of dollars to run the company.

Granted, the Balls reportedly had no idea that Alan Foster had been in prison for money laundering and mail fraud just before he befriended them in 2009, but they probably should have looked into him a little bit before handing him a 16.3 percent stake in the family business, or once the company earned an “F” rating from the Better Business Bureau for failing to fulfill orders, or when they failed to properly pay employees, or at some point in the five months that passed between their lawyer suggesting Foster stole $1.5 million from them and them actually firing him.

Lonzo turned down five-year endorsement deals that reportedly could have reached as high as $20 million around the time the Lakers drafted him second overall in 2017. I have my doubts Big Baller Brand is worth anywhere close to that two and a half years later, and whatever the number is, it’s apparently $1.5 million lower than it should be. The Lakers’ failures have little to do with the Ball family’s business acumen, but they did hitch the future of the franchise to this wagon.

View photos Let's just say Lakers owner Jeanie Buss has presided over a memorable season. (AP) More

6. LeBron James can’t find a co-star for “Space Jam 2”

This is just sad. The Lakers have now put their rebuild on hold for several years in hopes of having enough cap space to lure multiple max salaried free agents to Los Angeles. They successfully landed LeBron, but you know what isn’t a great omen of his ability to recruit a Lakers co-star? He can’t even find someone for his movie.

“Space Jam 2” is reportedly set to begin filming next month, one day after the scheduled end of a Lakers-less NBA Finals, and as far as I know (which it is to say as far as I interpret the IMDb listing), LeBron’s biggest co-star is Shawn Bradley.

We have heard conflicting reports about why LeBron cannot find another star to act alongside him. ESPN’s Brian Windhorst suggested it was because nobody wants to be posterized on film by LeBron, and the Hollywood Reporter implied it had more to do with conflicting interests with respect to shoe contracts. Because we all know Nike has a short list of NBA endorsers that only includes Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving, Bradley Beal, Draymond Green, Ben Simmons and many dozens more.

It does not help that a number of big-name players have also turned down the opportunity to serve as LeBron’s co-star on the Lakers, turning down free-agency meetings, leaving them off their preferred lists and wanting to avoid the drama.

View photos LeBron James and Lonzo Ball are at the center of several Lakers controversies. (AP) More