“The Lakers are a national basketball atrocity”: Stephen A Smith slams LeBron James and Jeanie Buss for incompetent management

Jeet Pukhrambam | 06/04/2022
"The Lakers are a national basketball atrocity": Stephen A Smith slams LeBron James and Jeanie Buss for incompetent management

LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers organization were slaughtered by Stephen A Smith on national television. 

The Los Angeles Lakers are currently on a 31-46 record, sitting in the 11th seed. They are out of the play-in tournament at the time of writing.

LA is a place famous for basketball glory and to see an organization of this caliber go through a torrid season is not great for the league. Stephen A Smith unleashed his wrath on national TV.

Stephen A came out guns blazing. He said that even a healthy Lakers team would be a.500 team and would be a seventh or eighth seed at best. He added that the team would still be knocked in the first round.

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Lakers organization and LeBron James get major flak from Stephen A Smith

Stephen A blames the front office for the terrible decisions made prior to the start of the season. He adds that Jeanie Buss gave Linda Rambis and in turn Rob Pelinka too much power in their hands.

He adds that this lack of accountability and decision-making has also affected coach Frank Vogel. Stephen A adds LeBron as a player has been sensational but as a pseudo “GM”, he has been terrible.

The rest of the analysts on the segment, Jalen Rose and Micheal Wilbon concur with Stephen A’s statements. They also discuss a few ‘could haves’ and ‘would haves’.

While no amount of praying is going to help the Lakers, as sideline spectators we have to just sit back and watch the drama unfold.

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Jeet Pukhrambam

Jeet Pukhrambam is The SportsRush's Lead Editor for Basketball. After freelancing for five years as an independent writer, Jeet created thousands of blog posts and articles. He now covers intriguing news reports and throwback stories on all things NBA. His interest in NBA started with the ascendancy of Giannis Antetokounmpo in the 2016-17 season. Since then, Jeet has managed to coalesce his knowledge of the game and his writing to create pieces that are reflective of the current state of the league. Now, he ensures that The SportsRush produces the highest quality of writing. In his free time, he enjoys playing football, cooking, traveling, and dancing to techno. Jeet takes pride in his critical thinking, music playlists, and his love for spaghetti.

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