The Los Angeles Lakers are a bad basketball team. Adding LeBron James was supposed to change that, but with 18 games left in the regular season, they have yet to reach their win total from last season.
However, unlike the past few years, people actually care that the Lakers are bad because there’s a difference between being a bad, rebuilding team and being a bad, LeBron James team. The latter gets more criticism, as you can imagine.
To some, that outside noise — which is amplified because of how popular the Lakers are globally — can be a distraction, but Josh Hart thinks the Lakers should use it as motivation to get them through the rest of the season.