What a difference two months has made for the Los Angeles Lakers.
At this time in December, the Lakers were playing well and had placed themselves firmly in the middle of the Western Conference playoff race. They weren’t a great team, but they were absolutely a good team, maybe even a really good team. They were building chemistry, making progress and learning how to win together.
Then LeBron James, the self-proclaimed Greatest of All-Time, Mr. Indestructible, suffered a strained groin in the middle of his team running the world champion Golden State Warriors out of their own gym.