The Los Angeles Lakers’ crisis has generated an open confrontation. The 37-point loss to the Denver Nuggets (the worst the Lakers have suffered in the last three seasons) confirmed the irregular season of the Californian team (21-22) and lit the fuse in the environment.
The season was looking less tortuous for the Lakers after assembling a star-studded team. However, the results have provoked the first criticisms from fans and yellow legends like Magic Johnson.
The noise generated around the team has forced its best player to come out and show his face in front of the fans. Although LeBron James, 37, tries to multiply on the court to solve the mistakes of his teammates, the effort is not enough. And that’s why the forward has decided to apologize.
‘King’ James used social media to apologize to Lakers fans. “#LakerNation I apologize and I promise we’ll be better!”. A short but direct message with which the forward wants to give a blow on the table and try to change the dynamics of a team that has three consecutive defeats.
“After being blown out by the Nuggets 133-96, we as Lakers fans can accept being outplayed but we deserve more than a lack of effort and no sense of urgency,” Johnson, tweeted. “Owner Jeanie Buss, you deserve better.”
“I do not have a reaction,” Westbrook said. “Everybody is entitled, in this world, to their opinion. Regardless of what that it is. You can either take it and run with it or you can take it and put it in one ear and out the other or you cannot respond to it.
“Magic’s entitled to his opinion. And he’s not here every day. He’s not around us every day. He’s not aware of what’s going on internally with us and trying to figure things out. But I have no response to that. Like I said, everyone in this world is entitled to their opinion and that’s that.”
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