The Lakers, 4-15 since the All-Star break, are talking about winning their last five games in an effort to make the postseason
LOS ANGELES — As Anthony Davis spoke about the “belief” the Lakers have to go 5-0 for the rest of the regular season – a streak they haven’t achieved all season – LeBron James chewed on the end of his designer sunglasses.
“I mean, I hate losing,” he said. “This is not what none of us signed up for obviously. But it’s not the worst thing that has happened to me so far.” The Lakers are effectively two games behind the San Antonio Spurs with five games to go, and aside from a fabled run – the likes of which hasn’t happened with this team – they won’t even get a shot at a single-elimination play-in game despite open-throated championship expectations from the start of the season.
It’s been a consistent sentiment for Westbrook after an 0-6 preseason, when the team struggled to get above .500 early in the season, when he slumped in the middle and now at the end: Keep looking forward, keep moving on. Only now, there’s no runway left. The catalyst in that collapse was Davis’ injury against the Utah Jazz on Feb. 16, when he clipped Rudy Gobert’s heel and landed awkwardly on his right foot. Davis has tried to not think about the past two seasons, when he has missed 75 out of 149 possible games, as a whole,That became tough as the Lakers wilted without him down the stretch. He tried to come back earlier, hoping to play as early as Sunday’s game in New Orleans, where he once was the franchise star.
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