The Los Angeles Lakers still technically have one more game to play on Sunday, but from the moment they were eliminated from the postseason earlier this week, everyone involved with the team has been content to begin the most important part of their offseason. No, not fixing this mess. They’re focused on something much more critical to their own individual survival than that: Making sure that other people besides themselves get blamed for how poorly all of this went through anonymous finger-pointing in the media.
My colleague Jacob Rude touched on some of this yesterday, but today I want to dig in and further analyze one of the main themes of this mess: The front office throwing everyone under the bus(s).