The Los Angeles Lakers are now 1-2 in games that LeBron James has missed this season. That amounts to a .333 winning percentage, which is better than the .200 winning percentage the team has in games that he’s appeared in. Long story made short, the Lakers are better without LeBron than they are with him.
Of course, I’m joking. If there’s ever been a misleading small-sample-size statistic, it’s that one. And besides, it turns out that although The King has missed the last two games due to the groin aggravation he sustained this past Wednesday against the Clippers, he’s still found ways to make sizable impacts on the team’s ability to win basketball games.