Marc Gasol and the Lakers’ partnership has been a messy entanglement straight out of a teenage television drama. Girl tells boy she loves being with him at the start of their relationship, then realizes his glaring flaws as the relationship goes on, and then finds herself slowly persuaded and attracted to a completely different guy. She then replaces her boyfriend with this new guy in her life, and shuts the former out entirely.
Then, after a few months, the girl realizes her replacement wasn’t meant to be after all, so now, she and her original boyfriend (who once wanted to leave, but still continued to hang on despite how he was treated) are in an real awkward place.