The Los Angeles Lakers have been a team of runs this season. They started 3-0, then went 1-4 on their first road trip. They followed that up with a 6-0 stretch and are now 0-3 in their last three with two blowout defeats. Lakers star LeBron James has been a constant throughout it all, but L.A. hasn’t been a consistent ballclub to start the season in any way.
Their last two losses have looked particularly bad. The Lakers were crushed in the second half by both the Denver Nuggets and the Phoenix Suns, two other Western Conference contenders.