My goodness, the Los Angeles Lakers are a bad basketball team.
Missing super star LeBron James due to a left ankle sprain, the Lakers are fighting an uphill battle for their playoff lives right now. Just days after blowing a 23-point lead in the second half against the Pelicans, the Lakers remain perilously close to dropping out of the play-ins with seven games left to play.
Tuesday’s game against the Dallas Mavericks was always going to be a difficult one for the Lakers, but as halftime rolled around, Los Angeles was losing big time 82-56. Yes, you read that right, the Mavericks put up 82 (!) points on the Lakers in the first half alone.
