NBA: 6 teams facing the most pressure to win post All-Star break
Los Angeles Lakers
Now that LeBron James has his record and that the Los Angeles Lakers are a retooled roster, it’s time for this team to turn their season around. Whether or not you believe that the Lakers have the capability of doing that, it’s clearly the goal for LeBron and the team heading into the final stretch of the season.
In fact, LeBron said that the final 23 games of the season are some of the most important games of his career. If it wasn’t clear that LeBron was all in on trying to salvage this season, it should be now. And he said it himself.
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The Lakers can’t afford to miss the playoffs. They can’t be the franchise that is known for being the place where LeBron misses the postseason two years in a row. That simply can’t happen. To say that they’re playing the final few weeks of the regular season under pressure would be an understatement.