How will the Lakers do in 2024-25? And can even the best coach in the NBA save them?
, The Ringer's head honcho Bill Simmons unloaded on the Los Angeles Lakers, one of his favorite past times, while chatting with colleague Kevin O'Connor.
L.A. just got booted from the postseason in a five-game first round defeat by the Denver Nuggets, who themselves didn't survive the second round of the Western Conference playoffs. In response, the team canned head coach Darvin Ham after just two seasons. Strange starting lineup decisions aside, the coach was not the issue. It's the team's rapidly aging core, comprising 39-year-old All-Star forward LeBron James and 31-year-old All-Star center Anthony Davis, and not enough money to fund the kind of young, athletic two-way supporting cast the team will need to compete with the youth movement in the conference."The Lakers are f---ing done, put a fork in them," Simmons said. "It's over.
Note that Simmons somehow opts not to mention the most recent champions, the Denver Nuggets, fresh off barely losing in seven games to the Timberwolves. "Hire Jack Nicholson's son, it's not gonna f---ing matter," Simmons opined. "They'll be lucky to be like a seventh seed. It's ridiculous. 'Oh, this is AD's team now.' It's like, 'Cool. AD, welcome to the play-in again, 'cause that's where you're headed.'"
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