The Lakers are looking worse by the day.
There has been a lot talks this morning surrounding ESPN’s Baxter Holmes and his recent exposé on the Los Angeles Lakers and all their dysfunction this season. Speaking to some anonymous sources around the team, Holmes found out that Magic Johnson was a bully during his time as president basketball operations for the team. One the other big storylines from the piece is that some players were upset with LeBron James as they felt he was “complicit” in the public recruitment and trade talks surrounding Anthony Davis the New Orleans Pelicans.
Things got so bad between the players and the front fice, that one member the coaching staff says there is a severe lack trust coming from the players in regards to management.
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Per Holmes:
“Guys know there’s no trust there. Guys know the new administration] has completely bent over to the agent world and were overly sensitive to having these one-sided relationships with these guys where they kind control our every move because we’re ‘big-game hunting.'”
LeBron has yet to reply to the report and neither has Johnson so it will be interesting to see what the fallout is from all this. Either way, it’s not a good look for a Lakers team that is trying to repair its image.