Just before the NBA suspended operations to proactively respond to the coronavirus pandemic, the Los Angeles Lakers were playing some of their best basketball.
They had just gotten wins against the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Clippers in games where some of their best role players — like Danny Green — weren’t playing close to their best basketball.
It was this stretch that proved that when LeBron James and Anthony Davis are at their best, the Lakers were extremely difficult to beat even if role players weren’t doing their best.