How about a Laker Elimination Day.
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Today could easily be “LED.”
Lakers @ Phoenix: beyond their basketball superiority, Phoenix should be highly motivated, since they’ve lost two straight; and as laughable as the LOLakers have been of late, you have to think the Suns wouldn’t mind eliminating the possibility of a first-round matchup with a healthy LeBron and AD where they start figuring stuff out at the 11th hour.
Spurs @ Denver. This is the trickier part of the equation (as far as official elimination tonight goes). But the Spurs have been playing well, and have a bit more to play for than Denver, so I wouldn’t rule it out. That game starts 1:30 before the Lakers game, so Phoenix will know by the 4th quarter whether they have a chance to land the official death blow on the Lakers’ season.
Lakers @ Phoenix: beyond their basketball superiority, Phoenix should be highly motivated, since they’ve lost two straight; and as laughable as the LOLakers have been of late, you have to think the Suns wouldn’t mind eliminating the possibility of a first-round matchup with a healthy LeBron and AD where they start figuring stuff out at the 11th hour.
Spurs @ Denver. This is the trickier part of the equation (as far as official elimination tonight goes). But the Spurs have been playing well, and have a bit more to play for than Denver, so I wouldn’t rule it out. That game starts 1:30 before the Lakers game, so Phoenix will know by the 4th quarter whether they have a chance to land the official death blow on the Lakers’ season.
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The Lakers have to win 3 more of the last 4 games than the Spurs do. Probably not happening. In any case, it's wishful thinking by the Laker and LeBron sycophants (ESPN is shitting its collective pants that the Lakers are going to be out) that the teams going to throw a switch and be good again; unlike the Nets, that certainly have a decent chance of doing that.
The other problem with trading for mid to late second round picks is that Houston is already larded up with kid players that need development time, adding another player or two in the 40-60 range of the draft doesn’t do anything for them. Now a first rounder has more potential and therefore would get consideration, but your odds of producing a player with a draft & stash in the late second round are roughly equal to hitting the Powerball.
But Houston needs future firsts thanks to the last Westbrook trade, so they’d be open to that suggestion.
It’s actually 2027 unless and until Pelicans declare they want the 2024 first rounder. If Pelicans select 2025 then they can’t move 2026 first round pick. So they are stuck until the choice is made.
Yes, he'll play Game 81 against the Thunder and Game 82 against a Nuggets team that may have nothing to play for.
Can’t anything be done to vacate that hollow Covid title? It bugs me to no end that they have it.
Some of you need to get a grip. They dominated the playoffs and deserve that title as much as any other team in any other year.
Since I didn't know what you were talking about.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33664003/los-angeles-lakers-legend-kareem-abdul-jabbar-criticizes-some-lebron-james-actions
They were clearly the top team but that doesn’t mean I have to give them the credit they deserved/earned. It’s the Lakers so I’m going to discount everything they do, thank you very much.
And they did have the best regular season record in the West by 3.5 games and the 3rd best in the NBA. The title was legit. But none of us have to celebrate it if we don't want to
This guy gets it. The Lakers, the team that invented the asterisk for the Spurs in 1999, don’t need someone steadfastly defending their honor at every turn.And they did have the best regular season record in the West by 3.5 games and the 3rd best in the NBA. The title was legit. But none of us have to celebrate it if we don't want to
Magic was on Get Up this morning and said Lebron needs to take the blame for the Lakers passing on DeRozan. Magic and Kareem blast him in the same week. Is this some kind of coordinated public attack?
I'll make a deal. We can count their fake mickey mouse title if they give back the Minneapolis titles.
Up 20, even. Phase One of the plan going about as well as one could imagine, so far. Not counting my chickens, tho.
Teams with bad losing records who don't deserve a spot that's why. It's getting like the NHL or how at times Hockey used to have bad teams make the playoffs and upset the No.1 seed. Makes the regular season mean little.
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The Wolves could use them, tbh.
I might even be willing to give the Sixers my two Philly Warriors titles to make it happen.
And the Spurs in many ways were just as good as a T.E.A.M. if not better then the Lakers from 1999 to 2014. Maybe the best big 3 that played together the longest, not necessarily the most talented. Duncan, Ginobili and Parker.
Most players, even star players, don't get blamed for having shitty teammates, but LeBron does, and he should more. Over and over again, he's demanded--as a condition of his employment--that teams make idiotic decisions that certainly leave them worse in the long term, but often also in the short term. Only in Miami, where Riley had enough juice to push back, at least for a while, was he able to be part of a winner with some staying power.
In a non-bubble year, there's a very good chance those Lakers aren't healthy enough to win. i hope to God LeBron goes on as a GM some day--it will be an absolute mess.
In a non-bubble year, there's a very good chance those Lakers aren't healthy enough to win. i hope to God LeBron goes on as a GM some day--it will be an absolute mess.
I’ll say that if the Lakers are eliminated by Game 81 there is zero chance LeBron goes out there injured to trying to win a relatively meaningless scoring title.
He’s done great in those All-Star drafts lol. Lakers have a decent shot to win this game with Phoenix going through the motions.
As recently a couple weeks ago, if you had told me the Spurs and Pels would bounce the Lakers from the *play in* with three games left in the season, I would have said, no effin way. This has really been an epic collapse (assuming the Suns close this out...)
Kareem's entire physical appearance is also a walking rebuke to Davis, who currently shares a physique with the Undertaker.
Oh my God, this 3rd quarter has been glorious. The Lakers are playing defense like it’s an All Star game and the Suns are pulling off video game dunks.
And to think 2 or 3 weeks ago Laker Kiss Butt Shaq said if the Lakers get in, they can beat the Suns in the playoffs and be a threat to win it all???Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!!! Some Laker Front office person must have told him to say that. He's not stupid.
Incredible to think ESPN had AD ranked as the #2 player in the league like 5 seconds ago. He looks like a dime store late-career LaMarcus Aldridge right now.
In a few minutes, the Lakers will officially miss the playoffs in 2 of the 4 years with LeBron and they had to go through the play in tournament last season. Whether you want to give the championship and asterisk or not, looking at the other years makes it pretty clear that the Lakers were helped by the long break in 2020 that allowed the team to be healthy throughout the playoffs. The Lakers aren’t getting any better and need a miracle to overhaul this roster. Watching them fail is almost as wonderful as watching the MFY flounder.
He is clearly still hurt, but he is almost always hurt. If you are always missing games you can’t be a top player, no matter how good you are when you are out there.
It's just as wonderful to me.
Fish rots from the head down. Terrible ownership, terrible front office. Another shitshow year.
This is awesome.
Yeah, I remembered that and fixed the post. They didn’t do anything, but they did make it.
The Lakers broadcast is talking about all of the injuries, but old players and always injured players get injured. The roster construction was crap and the pieces were never going to fit.
Kept that same energy!
I have this argument a lot living in LA, but their front office has been truly incompetent. Three #2 picks in a row and none on the roster. They traded everything basically for their COVID championship and are stuck with Street Clothes, LeBron who plays part time defense, Westbrook at a ludicrous $47 million next year, and a roster full of flotsam.
Naturally someone will swoop in and grant them a mulligan, but for now - glorious.
I have this argument a lot living in LA, but their front office has been truly incompetent. Three #2 picks in a row and none on the roster. They traded everything basically for their COVID championship and are stuck with Street Clothes, LeBron who plays part time defense, Westbrook at a ludicrous $47 million next year, and a roster full of flotsam.
Naturally someone will swoop in and grant them a mulligan, but for now - glorious.
