Alexander: An honor long overdue for Elgin Baylor

LOS ANGELES — The legends of the Lakers franchise showed up, in the gloaming of a Friday evening outside Staples Center, to honor one of their own. And it wasn’t hard to deduce that the franchise had this backward.
The guy who was first — the first L.A. Laker superstar, and the guy who invented hang time while Julius Erving was in grade school, Michael Jordan was in diapers and LeBron James was two decades away from being born — was the last to get his statue.
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