Even at 38 years old, Lakers star LeBron James continues to impress with regularly dominant performances that have carried his team to the Western Conference Finals. But after going down 3-0 to the Denver Nuggets on Sunday, the chances are that this season will end here for the Purple and Gold.
For King James, there is no doubt he can continue to be one of the best players in the game but ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith is just one of many who believes that this season’s run was the last opportunity for James to end his career with a title.
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“It’s not about LeBron, it’s about what you can put around him. Rob Pelinka has done a phenomenal job of transforming this roster, but it still ain’t enough and I’m wondering what else they can get,” said Smith.
“I think it would be a miracle if they got Kyrie Irving. I’ll pencil in LeBron for 25 points a night, but when you look at Anthony Davis. If we can’t rely on him to show up in consecutive games now, are we gonna be able to do that next year?
So to me if you’re LeBron who is approaching his 39th birthday — that with Anthony Davis and with how strapped the Los Angeles Lakers are in terms of what assets they have available, how can I definitively sit here when I’m looking at Denver,
when I’m looking at Devin Booker and Kevin Durant wondering if they’re gonna get additional assets in Phoenix, how can I look at some of these other teams and go ‘the Lakers can take them?'”
It’s never wise to dismiss the potential of a healthy LeBron James and Anthony Davis duo, but these playoffs have shown us all how much weaker they Lakers are compared to a true contender like the Nuggets, who continue to dominate the West.
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Obviously, the only thing on LeBron’s mind is Game 4, and you can bet he’s going to do everything in his power to win the game and avoid the sweep against the Nuggets.
But no matter what happens between now and June, we can expect the Lakers to be aggressive in improving the roster this summer and preparing the whole squad to make amends for their mistakes.
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