So remember last fall, when the talk was all about how the Lakers adding LeBron James to a roster of exciting young talent was going to make the Lake Show a player in the Western Conference, that it might even challenge the Steph Show if all the pieces came together quickly enough?
Yeah, well ...
The Lakers went 37-45, missing the playoffs by a full 10 games, finishing behind even those perennial sad sacks, the Sacramento Kings.
LeBron suffered a lingering groin injury and was in shutdown mode when the season ended.
The exciting young talent shut it down, too, essentially, after the Laker front office made a clumsy play for Anthony Davis and alienated the aforementioned young talent by making them feel like mere trade bait.
And before the final game of the season -- before the game, not after -- Magic Johnson called a press conference and, without telling anyone in the organization, abruptly quit as Lakers' president of basketball operations.
A job, it becomes clear now, he was never really into to begin with, which explains the half-hearted way he went about it.
And so this just in from L.A., the scene outside the Staples Center this morning ...
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