Webit was revealed on the show how haywood got kicked off the lakers. Apparently, the nba legend had a serious drug problem, which led to his inevitable. Webin the show — and in real life — haywood struggled with drug use, eventually leading to him being kicked off the lakers before the end of the 1980 nba. Webwhen spencer haywood came to los angeles in 1979 to be the lakers’ ultimate weapon at power forward, he made an interesting discovery.