Lakers Close Season With 53 Wins | Playoff Matchup vs Rockets| Injuries Remain
The Lakers close out the regular season with a win over the Utah Jazz, finishing with 53 wins and locking in home court advantage for the first round of the playoffs.
LeBron James, Rui Hachimura, and Deandre Ayton all had strong performances as the Lakers head into the postseason with momentum. Now the focus shifts to a first-round matchup against the Houston Rockets in a best-of-seven series. We break down the win, key performances, and what to expect in the playoffs.
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Allan who are you kidding? The Lakers ain’t gettin 1 game from this Rockets team! They barely beat them with Luka & Reeves! 4-Zip sweep to Houston.
doesnt matter what seed they lock you need to beat houston first, and all other teams in west on top, good luck with that, u never know, anything possible, its possible i might sleep with alicia keys too
Haven’t really watched since Luka and AR went out. Praying for a miracle they come back. See ya on shaefer and sliwa though go padres
Jazz suck
Lakers getting swept
Does SGA push off on his drives and pull up jumpers?
Lakers + refs vs rockets for the 1st round.
How does Luka dookey and Asstin make a difference in the playoffs? Luka got beat ass by Ant last year. Everyone saw how Astin plays vs the elite team. Asstin is 2-12 in the playoffs, and you dumb people are still talking about those 2 on what they can do. They can't do anything. They are a liability. Bron can single-handedly carry this noob roster against Houston.
The Lakers game on Saturday is actually a prime time game (08.30pm), I have no idea what you guys are talking about. 🤡🥱
Who's gonna be the KD stopper? I think this series will hinge on neutralizing KD and having an overall nasty, bulldog defensive mentality.
Houston losing vanvleet is nowhere near as catastrophic as the lakers losing Luka 😂😂 shit, it isn’t even as bad as the lakers losing AR. Vanvleet is a good player, but I really don’t see how much different Houston would be with him healthy, their problems are bigger than not having a fred vanvleet lol
This is gonna be a Helms Deep type of series. Lakers gotta hold out til reinforcement arrives.
Lakers in
7
Luka never made Dallas the most watched😂LeBron make small markets like Cleveland the most televized.Saturday at 8:30 is prime time,you Luka fans are so corny😂
Lakers defense will be better without Luka and Reaves,sit back and watch.
More like their 2nd and 3rd best players 💯
LAKERS 💜💛💪🏽
That’s Lebron James and you’re shocked ???? 😂
We are not beating the Rockets with out Luka
LEBRON loves to show out against the upper echolon teams 😂🤔
only games we can manage to scrape are against tanking teams
Thank you Adam Silver, Lakers have favorable scheduling
Imagine if we had real comp to end season against would push us back even further in the seeding
Unimpressive against teams that's actively trying to lose. I refuse to get excited for that.
Clearly LA is to a poorly constructed team that top heavy with alot of scrubs that's exoected to what they're incapable of
Did I hear him say the first and the third best player is out??? Lmao 🤣 bruh
Rockets in 3
LeBron is playing with no pressure he's not expecting to win without Luka and Reaves but if he wins the Lemedia will try to make him Time Magazine person of the year he's not beating OKC ,Nuggets or Spurs unless the ref and the NBA intervene that's with Luka and Reaves.
Rockets with Adams and Van Vleet are better then the lakers with luka and AR. They both are missing two key starters. Both have an aging star. Both have one dimensional players and a poor bench. The series is even and is a toss up. Sli just cant help thinking beating g leaguers over the last week makes them better than they are.
This team is average without injuries. They only ever had a punchers chance and thats still their max. Enjoy the games for what they are.
Lakers in 6
Knecht should be given a chance to prove himself in the playoffs. The kid has talent. He has been working hard to improve.