A lot has been made over the last several weeks about how nearly the entire Los Angeles Lakers roster being put into trade rumors might be affecting the team, but president of basketball operations Magic Johnson doesn’t want to hear it.
In a discussion with the reporters before the Lakers’ 143-120 loss to the Sixers, Johnson made it clear that he doesn’t think his roster can use hearing that Johnson did everything he could to ship them out for Anthony Davis as an excuse for poor play, and that the media shouldn’t either (via Dave McMenamin of ESPN):
“Quit making this about thinking these guys are babies because that’s what you’re treating them like,” Johnson said.