Five takeaways from a Game 2 loss to the Nuggets in which the Lakers led by 20 points early in the third quarter. Game 3 is Thursday night at Crypto.com Arena.
LeBron James' anger boiled over after the Lakers' latest loss to the Nuggets, but his anger wasn't centered on his team blowing a 20-point lead to the defending champions.
Jamal Murray: Champion. Cold-blooded. Game 2 hero. After struggling with his shot throughout Monday's Game 2 of the Denver Nuggets' first-round playoff series
The Lakers, in what could be their final off day of the season, watched film and tried to avoid the mistakes of the past while remaining hopeful for the future. Easier said than done. After leading by double digits in each of the first three games of their first-round Western Conference playoff series against the Denver Nuggets, the proof, to some degree, is there. The results, though, are not. “Guys are irritated, frustrated, fed up, ready to make a change in terms of not continuously going...
Here are six takeaways from the Lakers’ 101-99 loss to Denver in Game 2 Monday night that put them in a 2-0 hole in their best-of-seven first-round playoff series. There was a bit of cruelty late Monday night in Denver, the Lakers’ and the Nuggets’ late-game fates summed up by a pair of shots with wildly different degrees of difficulty. First, with the score tied, LeBron James stood all alone at the three-point line. Whether or not Kentavious Caldwell-Pope got pushed or got his feet tangled up...
Winning 47 games and surviving the Play-In Tournament, by most standards,
The collapse ended with a punch to the face, a blow to the ears, a dagger through the heart. The collapse of a million Laker mistakes ended with one Denver Nuggets masterpiece, the ugliness of pretenders trumped by the beauty of champions. Jamal Murray hit a fadeaway jumper at the buzzer, Ball Arena shook with an avalanche of glee, Anthony Davis fell backward into the Denver bench in desperation, and it was over. This game. This nightmare. This series? On a night they held a dominant 20-point...
"I don't understand what's going on in the replay center, to be honest," Lakers star LeBron James said following his team's Game 2 loss in Denver.
NBA superstar LeBron James was spotted at Saturday's playoff game in Denver sporting what appears to be a unreleased Pill speaker from Apple's Beats subsidiary. James was seen carrying a new version of the Pill speaker which features a lanyard. At present, the company doesn't have a single speaker featured on its website, having discontinued the last of its Pill models in early 2022. The Pill line of Bluetooth speakers was first introduced in 2012. The Pill+ released in in 2015. ...
LeBron James said he is undecided on his NBA future following the Lakers' season-ending 108-106 loss to the Nuggets in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series on Monday night.
Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) shoots as Denver Nuggets forward Peyton Watson (8) and center Nikola Jokic defend during the first half in Game 4 of an NBA
LeBron James scored 30 points, and the Lakers avoided playoff elimination with a 119-108 win over the Nuggets in Game 4 of their first-round series.