16, promising improvement, was followed by a stretch of 10-26. His tweeted apology to "Laker Nation," on Jan. James was agitated all season and couldn’t provide the leadership to bring together a winning unit. Beverley's nose-holding declaration of "trash" has turned into a zillion memes. The Minnesota Timberwolves - Karl-Anthony Towns and Patrick Beverley in particular - enjoyed settling old scores last month. The Suns were delighted to wave them off on Tuesday, especially after Davis’ recent comments insisting the Lakers would have won last season’s playoff series between the teams had he not been injured. They talked smack that came back to bite them. When they started horribly, they couldn’t come back. When they started games well, they blew leads. The Lakers have been a woeful team that didn’t play like a team at all. In truth, however bad even the sternest analyzer thought things could get, the situation got infinitely worse. It seems Frank Vogel will face the brunt of the punishment as rumors swirl that the Lakers are looking to move on from him. Thousands upon thousands of reposts were made of James’ defiant (and now deleted) tweet from August, when he informed the critics that they’d soon be made to regret their skepticism of the team’s abilities. Bleacher Report collected some of the more hopeful comments and predictions into a piece that highlighted all the missed steps of a team that was installed among the preseason favorites and believed they were poised for a championship run. Someone speedily pieced together a "One Shining Moment" video with a twist, splicing a catalog of the most ignominious plays of the year. If Los Angeles had shown a fraction of the creativity that the internet chuckle monsters employed by the time Wednesday morning rolled around, they’d be cruising into the playoffs instead of peering half-heartedly in from the window. The final nail, confirmation that a team boasting LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook would not get a sniff of the postseason, brought out the last bits of humor, and there were doozies among them. Every other comment was quickly ushered into the category of "well, that didn’t age well," often before it had had a chance to age at all. Every day brought some fresh embarrassment for the rest of the league to chuckle over.
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