After the 2021-22 season All-Star break, the Los Angeles Lakers were losing the vast majority of their games and plunging toward the indignity of missing out on the play-in tournament.
In mid-March, they still had a shot at making it, and against the Toronto Raptors on the 18th, LeBron James tried to make sure his team would be in position to compete for a spot in the play-in tournament.