LeBron does this often during the season.
It just doesn’t happen this early in the season. , LeBron doesn’t want to play 35+ minutes and carry a team. Anthony Davis is a classic example of an excellent player who can’t carry a team. He is better as a Pippen than a Jordan.
LeBron can no longer drag a terrible team to glory, especially in the Western Conference. I don’t discredit the Lakers bubble ring, but if we are honest, they won that ring because it allowed Anthony Davis and LeBron to have four months off. Ultimately, they were the only team that didn’t suffer significant injuries in the bubble.
You can’t blame this all on Russell Westbrook because the Nuggets cooked them last night without Russ.
A LeBron James-led team doesn’t begin 0-4 often. Not since his rookie season has one of his teams stumbled out of the starting gate quite like this.
“It’s a new system. It’s a new group of guys together,” James explained. “We’re still trying to get familiar with one another.”
Nikola Jokic had 31 points and 13 rebounds, Jamal Murray hit a big 3-pointer and the Denver Nuggets kept the Los Angeles Lakers winless with a 110-99 victory Wednesday night.
The Lakers remain in the company of Orlando and Sacramento as the only teams yet to win this season.
“We’re four games and it sucks to lose, but we have 78 games left,” new Lakers coach Darvin Ham said. “It’s plenty of time for us to right the ship. And it starts now.”
Trailing by two moments into the second half, the Nuggets went on a 29-9 to grab control. The Lakers worked their way back and cut it to single digits in the fourth, but Murray hit a 3-pointer — his only one in seven attempts — for some breathing room.
Anthony Davis, dealing with lower back tightness, had 22 points and 14 rebounds for Los Angeles. LeBron James had 19 points to run his double-digit streak to 1,100 games. Russell Westbrook was held out to rest a sore left hamstring.
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