This is what it feels like to play for the Lakers this season. In a game in which Kobe Bryant shared the court with LeBron James for the final time, and Kevin Love re-injured his shoulder. D’Angelo Russell found himself the unfortunate center of a different kind of publicity.
Here we are in the third quarter as LeBron his trying to hit a teammate in the corner, but instead finds Russell right in the cherry orchard. We’re told that Russell is OK, and that we don;t have another Manu Ginobli situation. So that’s good.
Lakers fans who weren’t even watching the game knew about this the second it happened, sensing the pain — as if a thousand souls cried out in agony all at once.