At 39-years-old, LeBron James is running out of time to earn a fifth NBA Championship. That goal seems further away after yet another loss to the Denver Nuggets, 112-105 The Lakers now trail the series 3-0. Teams in NBA history trailing 3-0 have lost 152 consecutive series and in the four major American sports, it […]
LeBron James and the LA Lakers earned a first-round playoff showdown with the defending NBA champions Denver Nuggets, and sports television personality Skip Bayless said they should now make their move while they are still "fresh." The Lakers secured the No. 7 seed in the Western Conference after they defeated the New Orleans Pelicans, 110-106 on Tuesday in their Play-In Tournament game on the road. The win set the Purple and Gold for an opening-round playoff clash with the Nuggets,...
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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...
The Lakers lost Game 2 to the Nuggets 101-99 on Monday night after replay
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. ...
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The outline hasn’t really differed much in their past seven meetings, the four from last year’s Western Conference Finals and the three chances for revenge that the Lakers couldn’t grab. Generally, the game has been close, the Nuggets will then get into their late-game offense, and the game won’t be close anymore. Thursday, the problem-solving phase of the Lakers’ preparation began, the late-game struggles against Denver obviously a piece of that planning. “Well, we just gotta be better all...
NEW ORLEANS >> LeBron James closed out his 21st NBA regular season looking invigorated, formidable on both ends of the court and ready to produce in the postseason.