THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENTION
With their loss to the Suns tonight the Lakers can finish at best 34-48. With the Spurs win over Nuggets, the Spurs can finish no worse than 34-48, while also holding the tie breaker against the Lakers, cementing the Lakers finishing at best as the 11th seed and ending their hopes at making the play-in
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FADED.
Congrats to the Pelicans for having a top ten draft pick
Got CJ for Josh Hart and some 2nds.
Pels status: Stacked
League status: Fucked
Zion status: Hungry
Get him Snickers.
That was the JV trade.
We need to make the playoffs this year or get massive lottery luck for the Portland pick to be kicked down the road until it may turn into 2nds.
GREGG POPOVICH SENDS HIS REGARDS
"Tell LeBron. I want him to know it was me"
Lebron wasn’t joking when he said see y’all in the fall
Well damn sure he will play for the scoring title.
Adam Silver tomorrow: "We have decided to expand the playoffs to 30 teams to give everyone a fair shot"
There it is
Lmaooo I love that only the 15 seed doesn't make it
Kings will find a way to miss the playoffs
damn the Kings really get bodied every thread man :(
I can guarantee you, if it were a 28 playoff format, my Kings would still somehow miss the playoffs.
Yo don't let the NBA see this bro
I’m fucking dead. Lmao.
I still expect us to miss the playoffs tbh
“29 current teams plus the Seattle Supersonics”
The Lakers really got Spurs fans and Suns fans to root for each other. They should enter global politics and enact world peace.
There is nothing that unites this country like hating the Lakers
Cowboys losing comes close. That Niners lost is still funny.
Shoutout Deebo Samuel
That's the end of the game. The game is over!
Thank god for the hatred of the Lakers and the Yankees.
-Every Boston fan knowing we'd be next in line
Yankee fan here. You’re wasting your breathe, we hate us too
As a Niners fan living in Dallas, that alone made it a successful season in my book lol
Anyone who was a fan during the 90s should've called it a successful season after that game, and then we also got the cherry on top with Green Bay
Metta world peace
This year has changed my view of the Spurs, I don’t mind y’all. But fuck Robert Horry
It's okay guys, it's just the
preseasonfirst weekfirst monthhalf the seasontrade deadlinepost all-star breaklast 10 games5-0Next: first season
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Bro they have to pay Russ $47 million next year, we might not be at bottom yet
Middle of an error.
and yet, they will be back on national tv in 2 days
"And the NBA champions of 2022 have been decided with that buzzer beater! Now to more important matters, what will the Lakers do with Russell Westbrook in the offseason?"
More like "We move into hour 98 of our live coverage from the crypto.com arena, where just 15 minutes ago Jeanie Buss and Rob Pelinka were seen discussing their lunch plans. Stephen A, do you see this as a sign that the Blazers are close to agreeing to the Westbrook-Dame trade you suggested LeBron should be asking Magic to arrange?", while across the bottom of the screen we see "NBA Finals: Game 7 goes to triple-OT" scroll past...
"This just in, Jeanie Buss and Rob Pelinka have decided on Thai takeout."
Stephen A goes on 30 minute rant about Pad Thai
"if it ain't spicy, I don't want it! They gotta get back to street style and STREET STYLE IS SPICY!"
it’s like getting covered in tar and feathered in public
should be weird because lebron will have it turned to level 11, trying to win the scoring title. pretty sure he has to play in next 3 games to qualify for the season
Just two games but yea
2 games he’s got to qualify I’m pretty sure now that he played couple days ago.
I need Embiid to go super nova and cockblock Lebron from the scoring title as well.
Pull a David Robinson and just score 60 for no reason.
Your wish was granted. Embiid dropped 45 and now sits at 30.4 ppg
Wiggins & Klay revenge game incoming.
Also Poole party.
Bros hands were tingling to get this out first
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Ariza single-handedly helped fuel a legendary rant.
Erneh: "Look at that shot by Trevor Ariza"
Chuckster: "Look at em empty seats!"
I never thought they were gonna make the finals.
But miss the playoffs entirely? And the play-in? I was hoping for it but didn’t think it would actually happen
I don’t even understand how. Like yes, obviously the team building sucks. There is still more than enough talent there to make the play in though lol. Their chemistry is just next level awful.
It really is amazing because a team with Russ as their best player is better than this. A team with AD as their best player is better than this. And a team with LeBron as their best player is better than this. How do you put them all together and make it all worse?
Subtraction by addition lmao
Russ is a bad fit with Lebron, not that it isn't his fault. Also, when you already have three max contracts, there isn't much room for quality role players.
eh idk this seems on par for a AD led team.
Effort level was pretty fucking low from a lot of players on this team too and that was a big part of it. When things got tough they didn't bounce back, they checked out.
The Lakers story, through LeBrons tweets:
Keep talking about my squad, our personnel ages, the way they play, we’re past our time in this league, etc etc etc!! Do me one favor PLEASE!!!! And I mean PLEASE!!!! 🙏🏾 Keep that same narrative ENERGY when it’s begins! That’s all I ask. #ThankYou 👑
#LakerNation I apologize and I promise we’ll be better! 👑 💜💛
I’m out for the season officially. 🤦🏾♂️. See y’all in the fall. 👑✌🏾
LeTrilogy
LeTragedy
LePhantomMenace
AttackOfLeClones
RevengeOfLeSith
TriLegy
🧽 Wanna see me eliminate the lakers?
Wanna see me do it again? 🧽
I'm so fucked by that "teleports behind you Nothing personnel, kid" meme that I thought he spelled personal wrong for a moment.
It’s because he wrote “our personnel ages” instead of “our personnel’s ages”
You can’t make this stuff up
One dude wrote the Lord of the Rings and their languages of different races. I think someone could write the narrative “Lebrone Jim writes three contrary tweets” lmao.
lebron crying on his emoji keyboard right now
🤔Something is REAL 😢😔😭😩😞going on
Fin.
Truly a tell-all, be-all sign of who the true goat is
When they traded for westbrook i was like huh, i think this is a bad trade, theyll probably lose in the second round to the suns or warriors. And i felt like i was being too negative lol.
Why they thought trading for a reverse floor spacer is a good idea when they have Lebron is beyond me. It makes me feel like I could be a front office person
https://i.imgur.com/JplrxXz.jpg
….and the obligatory
LeBon Voyage
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Because it actually makes sense and isn't some forced LeJoke.
Whewwww lawd!
Lmfao this one got me
Keep talking about my squad, our personnel ages, the way he plays, he stays injured, we're past our time in this league, etc. Do me one favor PLEASE!!!! And I mean PLEASE!!! 🙏🏽 Keep that same narrative ENERGY when it begins! That's all I ask. #ThankYou 👑
When the Recorders hit, I couldn't stop laughing I almost died here
The recorders get me every single time without fail...and I love it!
It's absolutely beautiful
That is so fucking awesome
I hadn’t seen this video thank you so much
Westbrook 2022 highlight reel
Edit: The fact that a celtics fan created this makes it soooo much better lol'
Edit 2: I have watched it 3x already. Its amazing. I am going to cum
This Tweet will forever haunt the LeBron era Lakers like 3-1 haunts us
Or like the "not 1, not 2, not 3..." comment
LeLiminated
Holy shit.
What a disaster.
This team is officially worse than 2013.
That 2013 team easily had more heart then this pathetic excuse of a team.
Spurs also eliminated that 2013 team.
That team was long dead without Kobe.
I don’t think we get swept with Kobe but you guys probably still beat us that year.
ANTHONY DAVIS: WE OUT
That's all folks.
"Keep talking about my squad, our personnel ages, the way he plays, he stays injured, we're past our time in this league, etc etc etc. Do me one favor PLEASE!!!! And I mean PLEASE!!! 🙏🏾 Keep that same narrative ENERGY when it begins! That's all I ask. #ThankYou 👑"
-LeBron James, August 4th 2021
• LakerNation I apologize and I promise we’ll be better! 👑 💜💛 • I’m out for the season officially. 🤦🏾♂️. See y’all in the fall. 👑✌🏾
Narrator: He wasn’t joking
Well he might not actually be on the team in the fall if we really want to go there this early. Maybe that's the joke.
We don’t have any words and we know you don’t want to hear them.
We understand your anger, your frustration, your sadness. Everything you’re feeling – we get it.
This isn’t the ending we imagined, and certainly not the one we wanted. Thank you for being there the entire way.
#LiveLaughLove #ThekidfromAKRON
UP UP and AWAY!! SUPER COMFY Ain’t He??!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤷🏾♂️. Bring over the bottomless mimosas and keep pouring! The air up here is a tad bit different. LIVE.LAUGH.LOVE #firstclasstravel🚀 #lekidfromakronheadingtostlucia👑 #mimosagang👑 #waiterjoseknows
PHOENIX, AZ — The Phoenix Suns defeated the Los Angeles Lakers last night in a game that also eliminated Los Angeles from the upcoming NBA playoffs. The Lakers, considered to be championship favorites at the beginning of the season, were without superstar LeBron James, who missed the game due to ankle soreness.
When asked post-game if he was disappointed in the Lakers performance this season, James abruptly cut off a reporter.
“Do me a favor”, the NBA star interrupted, “and please keep this narrative when it begins. Just please. Please.”
After a reporter informed the four-time MVP that the Lakers had been mathematically eliminated, a frustrated James again cut him off, repeatedly screaming “please” to no one in particular. The Lakers forward then pulled out a half-empty 1.5L bottle of Barefoot Pink Moscato from his bag, which he started drinking.
When informed he could not drink in the press conference, James replied “I already am.”
The four-time NBA champion then went into an unprompted, seventeen-minute rant where discussed topics ranging from teammate Russell Westbrook to the common cold, before finishing the bottle of Moscato and leaving the podium.
“See y’all in the fall” James said, as he threw the empty bottle back over his shoulder, disappearing behind the double doors.
Incredible, I imagine him wearing a suit with shorts
Sign me up for this timeline
Already the pastas in this thread have made the whole season worth it.
The Barefoot Moscato gets me so bad.
Keep talking 🗣🗣about my squad 👭👭, our personnel ages 👴🏾👴🏾👴🏾, the way he plays 👶👶, he stays injured 🤬🤬, we’re past our time in this league 🧜♂️🧜♂️, etc etc etc. Do me one favor PLEASE 🙏🧎🕉!!!! And I mean PLEASE 🤷♂️🤷♂️!!! 🙏🏾 Keep that same narrative 📖📖 ENERGY 🔋🔋when it begins ✝️✝️! That’s all ask 😘😘. #ThankYou 🧐🧐 👑
One of the most unlikable teams I have ever seen, so glad they got fucked out of the playoffs like this
Watching a few of their games, I find it hard to believe the Lakers liked the Lakers this year. No one on that team looked like they enjoyed being there this season.
As a longtime laker fan I upvote this. No one on that team put in any effort. WB is too arrogant, Lebron only cares about his image, AD isn’t as hungry and Carmelo is Carmelo. Our coach can’t motivate or draw a play if his life depended on it. Hope they blow up the team and rebuild.
Shoutout Monk, Reeves, Stanley Johnson, Wenyen Gabriel, etc for the effort.
TY Baze for the off the charts claps/36
Malik Monk the real MVP and I hope he gets a decent contract this off-season
This will go down in history along with the "not 1, not 2, not 3.." quote
Think that quote gets even worse too lol
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FADE EM
DRANK
FADE EM
DRANK
LeBron on going for the play-in: I sleep
LeBron on going for the scoring title: Real shit
Keep talking about my dudes, our personnel ages, the way he Body Slams, he stays juicy, the Hulkster is past his time in this company, etc etc etc. Do me one favor BROTHER!!! 🙏 And I mean it DUDE!!! Keep that same jaw-jacking when HULKAMANIA runs wild on you! That’s all I ask. #WhatchaGonnaDo 💪🔴🟡
EDIT: This meme is dedicated to Scott Hall, brother.
Ben Simmons tweeted something similar a few months ago:
Ben Simmons: "Please keep doubting me! Please keep doubting my shooting videos! Please keep telling me I can't shoot! Do me one favor PLEASE!!!! And I mean PLEASE!!!! keep that same narrative ENERGY when it begins!!!🙏 #WashedSimmons #WashedPrince #thekidfromMelbourne
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After the game, LeBron goes into the locker room, takes his shower, dresses and goes to a secret back room. There, on a bed, connected to a life support device is what appears to be the shrivelled up remains of a human, face gaunt and muscles atrophied, skin stretched tight over bones. LeBron approaches the figure, in the darkness, illuminating himself as he steps under the fading light of the room. He looks at the corpse who’s lips struggled to form words… he says “I didn’t sign up for this, LeBron”. LeBron chuckles as he connects a wire to a socket under his armband and the machine keeping this husk of a body alive spins up… fluids begin to flow into LeBron as he smiles, feeling the energy flow inside of him.
“Of course you signed up for this Kendrick Nunn.”
Chilling. Yet so plausible.
This feels like a meatcanyon skit or something. So chilling.
Lakers made so many of us happy today
Never forget what LeBron said at the beginning of the season:
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33641478/lebron-james-russell-westbrook-los-angeles-lakers-tumultuous-season-their-own-words
didn't you hear? Lebron didn't have anything to do with WB; at least that's what Klutch will tell us
I know right. Dude was having his lackey Chris Haynes planting bogus stories about how he wanted DeMar and that Westbrook wasn't his choice. Bull fucking shit.
If Westbrook had been a success you just know he would've been milking every last ounce of it and how great of a GM he is. But now it's gone sour he's got his PR lapdogs pushing the narrative that Russ was signed against his wishes.
Wasn't there a report that he killed a Hield trade because he wanted Westbrook instead?
cErEbRAL
I broke my back. Spinal.
And you still got hardcore Bron fans saying he didn't help make this team, I love Bron but this creation was helped by him. However I highly doubt he nor AD expected Russ to be this bad for the team
This is way better than that corny ass tweet holy shit. Love the stories his pr team is trying to float that he didn’t want Westbrook. What a fuckin bum
This dude is so fucking full of himself. He seriously thinks he's some sort of GM extraordinaire.
Well he says he watches a lot of basketball. What more do you need?
We just secured the longest playoff drought in NBA history and that is, somehow, less embarrassing than this. Fade em.
Well the kings didn’t have any expectations
Yes they did. I expected them to be bad and develop Halliburton.
They still disappointed
They were bad, but they realized Sacramento was no place to develop Halliburton, so they traded him away. They were just trying to make you happy.
if anything securing the longest playoff drought in NBA history was the expectation
So in a way, the Kings did something the Lakers couldn't. Congratulations to Sac
HA HA HA
HA HA HA
I'M LAUGHIN TO THE BANK
HA HA HA
https://i.imgur.com/1GX5GzG.png
IT'S GETTING SUNNY 😎☀️
It’s a beautiful day
For America
For the world
29 fan bases rejoicing. We all celebrating tonight
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Rollercoaster comment. Beautiful.
I'm imagining baby in one arm and needle in the other with the Lakers game on
king
Which was better
Cowboys did a QB Draw with 13 seconds left and no timeout then months later Lakers doesn't even make a playoffs?
What a year for America.
Remember that time Brady retired for a month?
Yankees are on a downfall and Coach K is gone too
At least an American team won the Super Bowl this year...
This team sucked and I’m relieved that they won’t be in the play in game
Post up.
Brick.
Bank shot.
Brick.
ISO.
Brick.
Free throw.
Brick.
Pass out.
Brick.
Sub in.
Brick.
Faded.
Brick.
Faded
Brick.
I miss open layups when I driiiiive in
POP'S LAST MASTERPIECE
Anthony Davis being a Top 75 player is/was/will always be a joke.
Top 75 injured players.
Shit. Muggsy Bouges done more for the game than AD.
Keep talking about my squad, our personnel ages, the way he plays, he stays injured, we're past our time in this league, etc. Do me one favor PLEASE!!!! And I mean PLEASE!!! 🙏🏽 Keep that same narrative ENERGY when it begins! That's all I ask. #ThankYou 👑
🧽 Wanna see me eliminate the lakers?
Wanna see me do it again? 🧽
that's all folks
Trevor Ariza was just rounding into form, Nunn is coming back soon...
EVERYBODY IN HERE!!!
We smoking 😤💨 🚬😮💨 on that 🟪🟨 Laker Pack tonight.
RIP MOST DISAPPOINTING TEAM IN NBA HISTORY
Bron really averaged 30ppg at 37 years old for this sorry ass team 😭
https://streamable.com/35eg9
They got all the best players. Problem is they were the best in the past.
If this team were to be in 2014 it would be great, but it isn't 2014.
Lebron created this team don’t feel too bad
GIVE ME THAT PICK
Anyone who knows basketball at all could have told you before the season this Lakers team wasn't constructed well enough to be championship favorites but DAMN missing the play in is still insane. I expected a top 5 seed a 2nd round exit not this...
The 6 consecutive seasons we missed the playoffs were more enjoyable to watch than this year’s team. Like several other people have mentioned, the lack of effort has been fucking infuriating.
I didn’t have realistic expectations of us winning a title with the most geriatric roster I’ve ever seen, but I thought they would make the playoffs and fall short. I never in a million years saw us posting a losing record and being knocked out before the play-in.
I’m not even sad about it. Fuck this roster, they deserved to miss the playoffs.
Don’t feel bad Lakers fans. The Yankees and Cowboys will be starting soon.
The worst type of person
I know a Pats/Lakers/Yankees fan lol. If he were a soccer fan he’d def root for Real Madrid.
Don’t forget Duke
and Bama when it comes to football!
LeCancun
LeFT OUT
We broke our franchise win record and eliminated the Lakers from the playoffs in the same night. It's a nice night. Lfg.
https://streamable.com/35eg9
r/NBA right now
Lakers out
Bron wanted a primary ball-handler and creator that would make things easier for him? Russ would go on to lead them to Cancun!
Leminated
• Keep talking about my squad, our personnel ages, the way they play, we’re past our time in this league, etc etc etc!! Do me one favor PLEASE!!!! And I mean PLEASE!!!! 🙏🏾 Keep that same narrative ENERGY when it’s begins! That’s all I ask. #ThankYou 👑 • LakerNation I apologize and I promise we’ll be better! 👑 💜💛 • I’m out for the season officially. 🤦🏾♂️. See y’all in the fall. 👑✌🏾
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Bazemore turned down more money and years (two) from the Warriors, sources say, but believes he will have a bigger role and opportunity to win a championship with the Lakers. Bazemore is betting on himself - Shams
LMAO EVERYONE GET IN HERE!!