The Los Angeles Lakers played their last game on Sunday, and they were eliminated from the playoffs a week earlier. Still, this drunken carnival that was the 2021-22 Lakers season didn’t stop careening just because the games were done. In what felt like a bizarre post-credits scene in a Marvel movie (working titles: Doctor Vogel and the Locker Room of Madness or Westbrook-Man: No Way That Jumper Goes In), forgotten side character Wayne Ellington declared war on 5’10” Denver Nuggets’ point guard Facundo “Facu” Campazzo.
Ellington was mad about a play that happened in the Lakers’ overtime win over the Nuggets on Sunday, a game highlighted by 41 points from Malik Monk, a triple-double from Austin Reaves, and zero minutes from four of Denver’s normal starters.