The Angelenos have lost the first three games of the regular season in the NBA and everything indicates that they will be far from the fight for the title
LeBron James looks like he will have to live another little year in the hellAfter not making the Play-Offs last season being 11th out of 15 teams in the Western Conference, this season They paint coarse again for the Angelenos after adding three defeats in the first three regular season games.
The spotlights look at the situation of a Russell Westbrook who contributes little to the team and who is very detrimental for Darvin Ham’s team in decision-making as could be seen at the end of the game against the Portland Trail Blazers. The base played a tangerine 30 seconds from the end without any sense and led to the comeback of the Oregon boys.
The Lakers are desperately looking for a way to get something of value for a point guard who is a long way from those days when he was the NBA MVP averaging a triple-double. Westbrook is the lameest leg of the big-three that LeBron and Anthony Davis make up, although neither of them are doing exactly well these days.
James is accused of playing only and solely for the statistics in his effort to beat Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s scoring record, while Davis is failing with health that has prevented him from playing 50% of the games in the last two NBA seasons.
The team has been compared to Michael Jordan’s Wizards in the early 2000s. Many names, many good intentions, but in the end not even the ’23’ accepted his decline as now happens with a LeBron which is far below its performance when it comes to defense. In attack he is still a knife.
bad planning
Thus, the franchise with the most rings in the NBA -17- equaled with Boston Celtics see how their eternal rival is in the fight for a ring that will be sold very expensive this campaign. The Lakers are at an impasse and mortgaged in the short to medium term with no draft talent available.
The team bet half of its future on the signing of Anthony Davis trading Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart and many high draft rounds that resulted in the 2020 title in the bubble. A priori that bet did not go wrong and they redoubled it last summer by bringing Westbrook in exchange for the rest of the young talent.
Kyle Kuzma, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Montrezl Harrell left and more rounds of Draft leaving the team as a wasteland. The Lakers hoped that LeBron would work his appeal among veteran free agents so that they would sign with the Lakers in search of one last adventure for the championship ring.
After 14 months of that, the treatment has been shown to be fatal. Veterans don’t want to go to the Lakers and the stars that remain are a long way from their heyday. The most iconic franchise in the NBA looks like it is going to have to face a long journey through the desert until you find your way back to victory.