"Operation: Get the Lakers in the playoffs" has begun..

[GusT15]

The Lakers are getting ing trashed by the Pelicans, who might be better without the loser Anthony Davis. Problem with trying to push the LAL into the playoffs is that they suck.

Their scrubs that they tried to trade for PG,then #2,then AD,are actual scrubs it seems.

Then again Russel and Randle left LA as busts and are performing like present and future all stars on their new teams.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

The Lakers are getting ing trashed by the Pelicans, who might be better without the loser Anthony Davis. Problem with trying to push the LAL into the playoffs is that they suck.

Agreed. I predicted 39 wins for LA. The league is going to have to work really hard to gift them the 7 or 8 additional wins above that that they'll need for the playoffs. Might end up being more obvious than the 2002 WCF fiasco.

[Mr. Body]

DLo is bringing Brooklyn back against a Charlotte team that was sticking it to them down the stretch. He's gone for 40 and has scored like their last 12 points late in the fourth.

A couple things: the Lakers team culture is complete and has been for years. With LeBron, it doesn't look to have changed. Everybody plays in his service. Russell is a star now, a mature player who knows how to win. I don't think the Lakers would be any better with him, because they'd just on his capabilities.

[GusT15]

DLo is bringing Brooklyn back against a Charlotte team that was sticking it to them down the stretch. He's gone for 40 and has scored like their last 12 points late in the fourth.

A couple things: the Lakers team culture is complete and has been for years. With LeBron, it doesn't look to have changed. Everybody plays in his service. Russell is a star now, a mature player who knows how to win. I don't think the Lakers would be any better with him, because they'd just on his capabilities.

Russell has so many Manu moves in his game i can't help but root for him at times in Brooklyn.

I'm seeing a pattern with millennial draft picks under performing in LA,maybe their generation's at ude in combination with LA's spotlight makes for a toxic environment for players,not reaching their potential.Too many distractions.

[Mr. Body]

Russell has so many Manu moves in his game i can't help but root for him at times in Brooklyn.

I'm seeing a pattern with millennial draft picks under performing in LA,maybe their generation's at ude in combination with LA's spotlight makes for a toxic environment for players,not reaching their potential.Too many distractions.

Their FO is piled high with bull any player can see through (Magic: "save some records for me!" to Lonzo Ball). They need good vets, a strong professional culture, and a serious commitment to the game. They don't have any of those. Their FO would rather chase the next big free agent instead of actually building a team. There's no discipline, no sense of hard work or doing the little things. It's just bull and swing for the fences.

They're also doing what Ainge is doing in Boston, which does have a good coach and a decent team culture (decent): they don't reward loyalty. Don't stand by their players, don't believe in them, show that they'll get rid of them any time they can. That's poison.

[BD24]

Their scrubs that they tried to trade for PG,then #2,then AD,are actual scrubs it seems.

Then again Russel and Randle left LA as busts and are performing like present and future all stars on their new teams.

Randle actually played pretty well his last season in LA. They were pretty stupid to let him go tbh.

[HWoodNixon]

Lost tonight against NOP

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Lost tonight against NOP

Adam Silver just threw up all over his LeBron shaped phallic.

[spursistan]

This team is ty enough to continue its freefall and miss out the playoffs on its own, but you also gotta watch the zebra whistle against them the rest of the way.

We are that kinda of boring ass team that the league would be glad to hose out of the post-season..

[Othyus Lalanne]

This is some Jussie Smollett type stuff; fabricated.

I don’t think the league in any way, shape or form would allow there to actually be an agenda in this regard. I also, despite wanting SA to miss the playoffs for a lottery pick, don’t see how SA misses the playoffs.

I think they need 46 wins to get in, 47 for sure. They need to go 13-9 to get to 46. I don’t see that not happening. Lakers are boned IMO.

I just heard the Ringer podcast guy tell that the League will cheat and it is what it is. Grow up fans. And also listen not the Ringer preach about how to be a good person.

Just like there was no agenda when Cleveland won the NBA draft lottery 3/4 years after Lebron left and the only year they didn't win, the NBA owned Hornets did.

Just like there was no agenda handing Lebron and the Cavs achampionship in 2016, fouling Curry out of a game for the first time in his career on a foul you don't see called in a preseason game let alone an NBA finals, suspending Green for a game for a hostile act, but not suspendig for an even more hostile act against OKC in the WCF's because was down in the series.

It's not a coincidence that the NBA has the worst drug testing system through out professional sports. A PED scandal in the NBA would completely rock the NBA to it's core, tarnishing the reputation the league along with the players in which the league has tried so hard to protect.


The NBA is one giant agenda after another for the sake of ratings.

Who cares about PED's? Cannot teach you when to reach in on a gamble, jump up for a rebound or make a Tony Parker Daredevil layup.

[Kobe'sAchilles]

Spurs doing their part in this operation tbh.

[TDomination]

Spurs doing their part in this operation tbh.

Yep pretty much.

i can almost see it already, we miss out by 1 game. Lakers get 8th seed. And the narrative will be the Derozan once again gets ousted by lebron.

[UncleDennis]

Spurs doing their part in this operation tbh.

haha damn dude, so true... especially after those last two games, the guys cooking up the conspiracy plans in Silver's basement were probably just thinking they could just let the Spurs play the games out.

That Derozan slip and Kawhi steal was something they couldn't even come up with because it would look too planned, some World Wrestling Federation story line type .

[TimmyBuckets]

Spurs fault they're gonna miss playoffs. The league didn't make them lose against Knicks. This team is trash.

[DPG21920]

I hope the league gets LA in over SA. I really do. Even the 14th pick would be great for SA

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

The two losses to Memphis, the Knicks loss, Bulls loss, Suns loss. Those all are going to hurt.

[kaji157]

How is our record agains playoff teams?
We´ve played so ty against non playoff teams that it might be better than our overall percentage.

[Bynumite]

Look, the evil lakers and the evil jew made the spurs shoot a combined 10-48 from 3 against the knicks and nets The conspiracy grows

Oh spurfans and their victim/small market complex Your team is just not built for the 3pt era. "The Man" is not out to get you, your shortcomings and troubles are self-inflicted.

[TheGreatYacht]

Look, the evil lakers and the evil jew made the spurs shoot a combined 10-48 from 3 against the knicks and nets The conspiracy grows

Oh spurfans and their victim/small market complex Your team is just not built for the 3pt era. "The Man" is not out to get you, your shortcomings and troubles are self-inflicted.

Rag dolled by Joakim Noah's corpse smfh....

[Rummpd]

Spurs lost the two games they absolutely had to win and did so in pathetic style. No chance on playoffs.

[Othyus Lalanne]

Look, the evil lakers and the evil jew made the spurs shoot a combined 10-48 from 3 against the knicks and nets The conspiracy grows

Oh spurfans and their victim/small market complex Your team is just not built for the 3pt era. "The Man" is not out to get you, your shortcomings and troubles are self-inflicted.

The Spurs could play badly and the Man could be out too get them. Both can be true.

[DPG21920]

I’m so pissed la sucks so bad. SA is 1-7 and lakers lost ground? Unreal. F that team.

[DPG21920]

Look, the evil lakers and the evil jew made the spurs shoot a combined 10-48 from 3 against the knicks and nets The conspiracy grows

Oh spurfans and their victim/small market complex Your team is just not built for the 3pt era. "The Man" is not out to get you, your shortcomings and troubles are self-inflicted.

Nba isn’t helping La. that’s dumb. But la sucks on their own and they are going to cost SA a lottery pick.

[callo1]

Honestly, I watched that Lakers / Rockets. I didn't see the terrible officiating mentioned by the OP, I did however see that Harden didn't get the the normal nonsense calls he usually gets. I swear, that step-back push-off three point shot Harden constantly gets away with is criminal.

If you want to point to a game given to the Lakers, the Boston game a few weeks back was garbage. The Lakers got away with an absolute blatant 5 second inbound violation which allowed them to win the game. Not the Rondo buzzer beater, the three by Kuzma on the previous possession.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Look, the evil lakers and the evil jew made the spurs shoot a combined 10-48 from 3 against the knicks and nets The conspiracy grows

Oh spurfans and their victim/small market complex Your team is just not built for the 3pt era. "The Man" is not out to get you, your shortcomings and troubles are self-inflicted.

Ask the Sacramento Kings fans about the league fixing games for the Lakers.

What's sad is that in spite of everyone's efforts, the Lakers remain irrelevant.