Los Angeles Lakers fans and haters: Calm down. Just stop.
It’s November.
Relax. The Lakers are just 15 games into an 82-game extended preseason in preparation for the playoffs. The team is 5.5 games back with 67 games to play.
Los Angeles is going to be fine, and the super team will likely still represent the Western Conference in the NBA Finals.
Settle down. Championships are not won before the New Year, and they aren’t lost before December.
Are you breathing yet?
The Lakers still have absurd, veteran talent that will come together.
Kobe Bryant is leading the league in scoring at 27.7 points per game and is doing so on 50 percent shooting, the highest mark of any guard who scores 20 or more points per game.
Dwight Howard is the best center in a league void of great centers. Howard is scoring 17.9 points on just under 60 percent shooting and he’s grabbing 10.5 rebounds per game. And he is still not the elite, athletic defensive player he is capable of being as he continues to come back from a serious back surgery.
So what’s wrong with the Lakers a ...
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