The Lakers are currently battling against the Denver Nuggets in Los Angeles for Game 7 of their first-round series.
What's the best way to prepare for a Game 7? That depends on who you ask, but it's certainly not by having a VP of your team telling the media that your team's coach will be fired if you fail to advance to the next round.
Of course, this is exactly what happened in Lakerland on Friday night. ESPN LA's Dave McMenamin reports:
As if there wasn't enough pressure already on Los Angeles Lakers head coach Mike Brown heading into Game 7 against the Denver Nuggets on Saturday, now a prominent Lakers legend says Brown will be coaching to keep his job.
Former Laker Magic Johnson, working as an ESPN/ABC NBA analyst on Friday during the Los Angeles Clippers game against the Memphis Grizzlies, said that if the Nuggets beat the Lakers in Game 7 Brown's tenure in L.A. will be cut short.
"Mike Brown will not be coaching the Lakers if they lose this game," Johnson said. "There would be so much pressure on (Lakers executive vice president of player personnel) Jim Buss and the Laker organization ...
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