This seems like an odd time to say the Los Angeles Lakers are finally contenders, right? The word “finally” in the title to this article implies that when the Lakers were 20-14 and in 4th place in the difficult West, they weren’t actually contenders.
Now, even though they’ve gone a sad 6-9 in their last 15 games, with two of those losses coming against two of the worst teams in the NBA in Cleveland and New York, they have a chance at a title?
To make matters worse, and my argument even more delusional, the Lakers have currently fallen out of the top-8 in the Western Conference, and many “experts” have said they won’t even make the playoffs.