The Los Angeles Lakers have played ugly basketball of late and fans simply want it to come to an end. Fans have been clamoring for some kind of trade to improve the team this season, with LeBron James even sending a message to management after Wednesday’s loss to Miami.
With LeBron essentially telling the front office to improve the team in public, one would think that Los Angeles would make a move. After all, this is the Los Angeles Lakers! This is not a franchise that likes being coated with irrelevancy.
There was speculation before Davis got hurt that at the very least the team would try to trade Patrick Beverley and Kendrick Nunn in a package together, even if it took a protected first-round pick.
The Davis trade obviously changes everything and the team’s intentions have shifted. Dan Woike of the Los Angeles Times reports that the team has internally considered not making any kind of trade and simply riding out the season with the current roster.
There has been "serious consideration" within the Lakers' front office of "riding out the season" with the current roster and not making a trade if they cannot find one that makes them a contender, per @DanWoikeSports. pic.twitter.com/CvTngNpiid
— Lake Show Life (@TheLakeShowLife) December 29, 2022
The Lakers’ front office may have already given up on this season.
Either the front office has given up or they are simply ignorant of the product that they are putting on the court. If the front office does not even try to improve the roster then it has to be one of those two things and there are no other excuses.
This is not a team that is talented enough to make any kind of noise in the playoffs. Heck, this team is not even talented enough to stay afloat while Anthony Davis is injured. Things have already started to go off the rails and that is only going to continue until Davis returns.
By the time Davis returns it may be too late. Los Angeles may be too far out of the playoff picture that any sort of run they go on won’t matter. After all, the team still had a losing record while Davis was playing. It is not like they were a fourth seed that suddenly plummeted without Davis.
You would hope that the front office is not ignorant of this but with how this team has been run in recent years who knows what they are thinking? It very well could be a case of the front office giving up on this season. If that is the case, fans have every right to give up as well.
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It is just frustrating to see, particularly in this season where the Western Conference is wide open and the Lakers still have two of the 10 best players in the NBA when they are both healthy. It takes really bad management to mess this up and unfortunately, that is exactly what Los Angeles has done.