Silver Screen and Roll · Mar 27, 2021
Lakers vs. Magic Preview: Time to go streaking
Photo by Juan Ocampo/NBAE via Getty ImagesIt took five tries, but the Lakers finally won a game without LeBron James and Anthony Davis, beating the moribund Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night. And all of a sudden — after losing the previous four games — they have a chance to start a streak in the other direction with the openly tanking Orlando Magic coming to town on Sunday.
“But wait Harrison,” I can hear you saying, “aren’t the Magic sort of competent?” To which I will say no, hypothetical straw man I created for narrative purposes, they are not. That was the old Magic. The new Magic suck out loud.
