Los Angeles Lakers ruin Christmas day for their fans with a shameful performance against a Kevin Durant less Brooklyn Nets
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The Christmas Eve game between the projected best teams of the East and the West Coast is scheduled at the start of the season like any other game. LA Lakers and Brooklyn Nets were to be the top seeds in their conferences according to the odds for the 2021-22 season.
One among the two turned out to be true, Brooklyn is the top team in the east, but nobody in their wildest of imagination would have thought that the Lakers after acquiring Russell Westbrook would be 16-18 in the season. They now sit at 8th in the West.
It’s odd for Brodie even after his significant dip as a big-name player to not perform at a certain level in the regular-season games. But that’s what he is struggling with lately. The Lakers again found themselves depending on LeBron James, who has been playing more minutes per game than his age.
LeBron’s last five games: 31.6 PPG, 9.8 RPG, 5.2 APG
Lakers’ record: 0-5
(h/t @TheHoopCentral) pic.twitter.com/e6suVbHGqS
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) December 26, 2021
Any basketball fan across the globe would have loved to watch a Lakers-Nets game on the 25th of December if you asked them at the start of the season. But of late that wouldn’t be the case. “Watching the Lakers” was trending on Twitter during the game for all the wrong reasons.
NBA Twitter thrashes Lakers for putting up a bizarre Lake-show against the Nets
Although Purple and Gold lost the game by just 7-points, they trailed the injury and Covid-19 protocols hit Brooklyn Nets by 23 points at one point in the third. Some might argue that the Lakers were also without Anthony Davis and a few other starters. But they had LeBron James and Russell Westbrook whereas the Nets were without KD. And so, NBA Twitter was on to the Lakers quickly.
“We aren’t assessing the Nets we are watching the Lakers, the real Nets aren’t here”
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— Cody Mallory (@RealCodyMallory) December 26, 2021
The Lakers defense Lmfaoo pic.twitter.com/K73XOVbsy1
— Famouslos32 (@famouslos32) December 26, 2021
LeBron looking at the Lakers roster pic.twitter.com/HyLDsrndd7
— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) December 26, 2021
Lakers need to sign Stanley Johnson for the rest of the season.
ASAP.
— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) December 26, 2021
Being a Lakers fan ain’t for the weak.
— kari (@kariroxx) December 26, 2021
HOW 37 YEAR OLD LEBRON CARRIED THE LAKERS TONIGHT WITH NO HELP FROM WESTBRICK #BKNvsLAL pic.twitter.com/RH03UlPPf8
— (@HoodieLBJ) December 26, 2021
This mind-boggling plus-minus stat shows how much negative impact the rest of the Lakers team is having even after LeBron James was +9 and played 40 minutes.
in a game the lakers lost by 7 points, lebron james was a +9 in 40 minutes. russell westbrook was a -23 in 37 minutes. merry christmas.
— Darius Soriano (@forumbluegold) December 26, 2021