Magic Johnson is Right, Losing is Los Angeles Lakers’ Best Option
By Andrew Fisher
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The Los Angeles Lakers are bad at basketball. There’s no way around it. However, everybody knew the Lakers were going to suck, so it’s really not that big of a story.
Still, the Lakers are so bad, that Magic Johnson wants them to keep losing. That’s right. Magic Johnson, one of the fiercest competitors in the history of game, wants his Lakers to keep on piling up the losses this season.
Magic’s logic is simple: losing = better chance at drafting the next big thing. He’s right, but his logic is not flawless. We are talking about the NBA, a league that uses ping pong balls to determine the No. 1 selection in its draft.
But ping pong balls aside, Magic is spot on. There’s just no reason for the Lakers to win this season. This group of guys is not the group that’s going to bring back Showtime. Maybe there’s a piece here or there, but overall, this is a Major League-caliber roster. Aka — one built to lose games.
As terrible as it sounds, all teams need a couple of bad seasons to reset things. It’s an essential part of the rebuilding process, if your goal is to one day compete for a championship again. The middle of the pack in the NBA is no man’s land. A franchise as valuable as the Lakers has no business being stuck in no man’s land.
Byron Scott can say that he doesn’t want his team to have a loser’s mentality, but it won’t change the fact that the Lakers already have nothing to play for this season. And once Kobe Bryant passes Michael Jordan on the all-time scoring list here in a few days, there really won’t be anything to play for.
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