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Daily Mirror
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Megan Feringa

European Super League and the American inspiration which doomed it to failure

If the Los Angeles Lakers played in the Premier League this season, there would have been a whole lot more noise.

The Lakers – yes, the Lebron James and Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook Lakers, the formerly-Magic Johnson world-beaters and always home of the legendary Kobe Bryant – festered in what NBA experts and fans are dubbing simply an ‘historically disappointing season’.

The team finished 11th in the NBA’s shallow Western conference, trailed by a littering of tragic performances. The Lakers did not technically crack the ignominious 50-games-lost point, though they arguably only did so by not having one more game to lose.

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