Are the Lakers tanking this game for Metta?

[Latarian Milton]

just a possibility imho lakers gonna need MWP to cope with durant, and if gets suspended AGAIN with a flagrant foul against durant, durant will stay out for even more games with a broken neck or leg

[Josepatches_]

Lol

I guess they were tanking games in the regular season too because they played this bad.

And I'm pretty sure Kobe wants to add more missed shots to his cluth legacy

[Mr. Body]

Bynum's pregame comments - "closeout games are easy, the other team just folds" - showed where the team's head was at and why they started getting bombed by a more determined team.

[cheguevara]

nobody tanks playoff games. never did, never will

[m>s]

teams do it quite often especially in the finals teams may tank a game or two so they can end up winning the series & ring on their homeground, not meaning they were losing them games purposely though. if/when you're not putting out your full strength in a playoff game, you're tankin' da game tbh

[ambchang]

I think they are tanking on purpose, but not because they want to wait for MWP, but because Kobe wants to go back to Colorado for some good times.

Kobe says, Lakers do.