As Magic Johnson peered down from his suite inside Staples Center on Sunday night, the president of basketball operations saw a dreadful display of basketball in the first quarter from the Lakers that put them in a deep hole they were unable to pull out of even when they did find their competitive spirit.
They got drilled in the first, falling into a 31-point deficit to the Toronto Raptors before the Lakers showed some fight while dropping a 121-107 game before 18,997 sometimes disgruntled fans.
The Lakers had won an emotional game in Portland on Saturday night, breaking a 16-game losing streak to the Trail Blazers.