EL SEGUNDO – The last time a Lakers team with Metta World Peace reached the playoffs, it lost in the first round. It was an unequivocal disaster given all the money, all the draft picks it took to bring those 2012-13 Lakers together.
Three years later, the Lakers reaching the first round of the playoffs would be equally surprising, this time because so little is expected of them.
World Peace, however, in his comeback attempt with the Lakers, doesn’t see it that way.
“It will be a great story … this year when the Lakers go to the playoffs,” he said.