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Los Angeles Lakers: 3 must-win games for the rest of the regular season

With the All-Star break now behind us, the Dog Days of the NBA season for the Los Angeles Lakers are almost done with. Soon we will be moving our clocks an hour forward as the NBA Playoffs loom on the horizon and the Lakers will look towards rounding into fighting shape.

March and April are when playoff and championship contenders traditionally want to start peaking and playing their best ball. You don’t want to wait for the start of the playoffs to start establishing championship habits – you want to engrain them as early as possible.

After their 114-112 win over the hated Boston Celtics on Feb.