About r/lakers
In its own words:
The home of the Los Angeles Lakers — the most iconic franchise in sports. 17x NBA Champions. We bleed purple and gold. Mamba Mentality lives here.
Community guide
r/lakers (#640, about 1.7 million subscribers) is oriented around: The home of the Los Angeles Lakers — the most iconic franchise in sports. 17x NBA Champions. We bleed purple and gold. Mamba Mentality lives here. Recent activity samples show 54 posts/day in recent samples (~44% image, ~40% text, ~11% video). Public rules we collected include: Be respectful to other fellow members. No hateful trolling, or personal attack posts and comments.; No lazy, misleading, or sensationalized titles.; No low-effort shit posts or memes. Posts may be removed at mod's discretion.. Directory metadata files it under “Sports”.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent fandoms or general off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and advertising are tightly limited—read those rules before linking your own channel, shop, or site. Low-effort memes or empty shitposts are commonly removed—add context that fits the room’s purpose. Civility and anti-harassment rules are explicit; personal attacks get you removed regardless of how right you think you are.
How it differs from lookalikes
The length of the public rule list is itself a signal: skim all of them once before assuming defaults from similar communities.
Practical pointers
Read the current sidebar/rules on Reddit before posting; collected rules can lag. Search the sub before reposting common clips or questions. Avoid clickbait titles; say what the post actually is. Common flairs in samples include: PLAYER TALK, TEAM TALK, POST GAME, STATS / ANALYTICS.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Apr 25, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,026 subscribers (+0.06%). Among the 20 communities on our basketball list it is number 4 by size. It sits just behind r/olympics (#639) and ahead of r/TheWayWeWere (#641) in our ranking.
What sets r/lakers apart
r/lakers is far more image-driven than most big subreddits: 44% of its recent posts are images, against a median of 21% across the Top 100. It is a discussion-heavy community, with about 33.1 comments per post over its lifetime versus a Top 100 median of 13.1. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (04:00 UTC) sees about 12.5× as many posts as the quietest (09:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/lakers climbed from 1,657,178 to 1,661,231 subscribers (+4.1K, +0.24%). That is about 92 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/lakers talks about
We read the titles of 397 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “luka”, “game”, “season”, “nba” and “doncic”. Other frequent themes are tonight, points, team, austin, kessler and games. Recurring phrases include “luka doncic”, “luka dončić”, “austin reaves” and “walker kessler”. By format, 44% are images, 40% are text posts and 11% are videos.
Popular post flairs: PLAYER TALK (51), TEAM TALK (25), POST GAME (19), STATS / ANALYTICS (14), APPRECIATION (14), LUKA MAGIC (13).
Activity and best time to post
r/lakers gets about 54 new posts a day. The public archive holds 363,293 posts and 12,008,003 comments in total, about 33.1 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Saturday (149 posts) and the quietest was Friday (36). Posting peaks around 04:00 UTC and is lowest around 09:00 UTC.
Rules of r/lakers
The moderators of r/lakers list 12 rules. In short:
- Be respectful to other fellow members. No hateful trolling, or personal attack posts and comments.
- No lazy, misleading, or sensationalized titles.
- No low-effort shit posts or memes. Posts may be removed at mod's discretion.
- No duplicate posts. Please be aware of posts previously posted or discussed on the subreddit.
- No celebratory doom and gloom posts after games.
- No miscellaneous draft talk.
- No Lebron vs Kobe discussion or debate.
- No brigading other NBA team subreddits. Bigrading other team subreddits may warrant a ban.
- Please apply the proper FLAIR when creating any post for discussion.
- Stay on topic. The sub is dedicated to the Lakers. Posts that are not related may be removed.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/lakers and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does r/lakers have?
r/lakers has 1,661,231 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #640 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 4,053 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/lakers?
r/lakers was created on Apr 25, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years.
How active is r/lakers?
Very active: r/lakers gets about 54 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 363,293 posts and 12,008,003 comments. In a sample of 397 recent posts we counted 245 different authors.
When is r/lakers most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Saturday and the quietest Friday, and most posts arrive around 04:00 UTC, with the fewest around 09:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/lakers about?
The community describes itself as: “The home of the Los Angeles Lakers — the most iconic franchise in sports. 17x NBA Champions. We bleed purple and gold. Mamba Mentality lives here.” Recent post titles often mention luka, game, season, nba and doncic. Most posts are images (44%).
Is r/lakers safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/lakers as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/lakers?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/lakers accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and polls enabled. It has 12 posted rules, starting with: “Be respectful to other fellow members. No hateful trolling, or personal attack posts and comments.”; “No lazy, misleading, or sensationalized titles.”; “No low-effort shit posts or memes. Posts may be removed at mod's discretion.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/lakers?
Communities with similar topics include r/nba (17.3M), r/Nbamemes (1.6M), r/sports (22.1M), r/argentina (1.6M) and r/EASportsFC (1.4M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/lakers.