The Lakers dropped their fourth straight game on Friday and Los Angeles is now 17-19 following its loss to the Grizzlies. After winning the NBA’s in-season tournament last month, L.A. currently sits a game out of a play-in tournament spot at No. 11 in the conference.
“We just suck right now,” LeBron James said after the game, according to ESPN’s Dave McMenamin.
The Lakers have gone 3-10 since winning the in-season tournament in Las Vegas, and James downplayed the importance of that accomplishment in evaluating the Lakers’ season in full.
“That was just two games,” James said. “It’s a small sample. Everyone is getting so cracked up about Vegas and keep bringing up Vegas. It was two games. We took care of that business. It was the in-season tournament, we played it, we won it. But that was literally just two games.”
The Lakers’ frustrations have boiled over, with reports surfacing over the past week about coach Darvin Ham‘s disconnect with the locker room. Ham said too much emphasis has been placed on Los Angeles’s recent losses.
“I’m tired of people living and dying with every single game we play,” Ham said. “It’s ludicrous, actually. It’s like, come on, man, this is a marathon. And we hit a tough stretch. It’s the same team. … We played some high-level games a little while ago, and we just got to get back to that. We got to keep the fight going. We cannot lose our fight.”
The Lakers are currently without rotation players in D’Angelo Russell, Rui Hachimura and Gabe Vincent, further complicating their current struggles ahead of the trade deadline. However, players have continually refused to use injuries as an excuse.
“We still have a lot of basketball left,” Anthony Davis said. “But we’re trending in the wrong direction right now. And the last thing we need, especially when guys are out, is to separate and fall apart. So we got to stay together, for sure, and figure it out. We can’t be in our feelings. We can’t be complaining or whatever. We can’t take anything personal.
“We have to look individually, myself, everyone in the locker room, the coaching staff, look at ourselves in the mirror and figure out what we can do individually better to help the team be better. And I think then we can come out and flip things around.“
But they already got a banner this year!
That is correct
Did LeBron walk off the court before the game ended like the previous 2 games?
Lakers, Warriors and Suns are all time great super teams
They translate all time great teams into lottery teams
Bulls are 10th seed, laVine missed 18 games
Lakers are 11th seed
Don’t worry you’ll always have that mesmerizing In-season Tournament run, beating the mighty Blazers, Jazz, Pelicans and Pacers, now that was huge
He has a big say in the roster so he is partly to blame along with Rich Paul.
Rich Paul is a scumbag
When is the last time a player who suggested or compelled a trade later owned its negative outcome?
Its only going to get worse for the Lakers. They are headed into the next 10 games playing some of the tougher teams in the west. Their best hope is win 5 of them.
Does ham know that fan is short for fanatic so absolutely some of the fanatics are going to hang on every game. So it’s nice to scatter in some wins every now and again to give the fanatics hope
Concerning comments by Ham there. Being frustrated that fans are vocalizing frustration? Your team is under .500 almost half way through the year… what did you think was gonna happen?
At least big pimpin is honest.
“I’m tired of people living and dying with every single game we play,”
You prefer they didn’t care?