With a season that has gone from bad to abysmal, what are the Los Angeles Lakers playing for right now?
Forget about when or if Kobe Bryant will return—that’s not the here and now. Forget that Pau Gasol was putting up some highly efficient numbers before being put on the shelf for at least a week with a groin injury.
This is about a bunch of bargain-basement castoffs who have gone from the Bad News Bears to the Who-Cares Bears. Most of these guys are playing for a contract next year, and for some of them, it won’t be with the Lakers.
Are they playing for the name on the front, or the name on the back of their jerseys?
Ramona Shelburne for ESPN Los Angeles addressed the issue when she observed that it doesn't actually feel like it matters anymore. When asked what was left for his team to play for, however, Gasol said this:
Mostly pride and our fans and the name that we have on our chests, more than anything. It's not looking and feeling good right now, but you've got to play through it and do your very best.
There may, in fact, still be some pride, but there’s al ...
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