WASHINGTON —
The challenge, the Lakers said, was as much mental as anything else. Six games in nine days including contests against some of the worst teams in the league, a stretch that closed Wednesday against the Wizards.
“Those are teams, respectfully, that we should beat,” D’Angelo Russell said the night prior.
And even though the Wizards had just upset the Milwaukee Bucks, the Wizards were another win the Lakers were supposed to get.
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That didn’t mean it was going to be easy.
Road weary from a trip that took them from Milwaukee to Memphis to Indiana to Brooklyn and to Toronto before reaching Washington, D.