To say that January has been a rough stretch for the Los Angeles Lakers is saying just a little. Thursday marks the final day of the month and as ESPN’S Dave McMenamin notes, LeBron James will once again be watching from the sidelines.
Six wins and 11 losses have occurred since James went down with a Christmas Day groin injury. An erratic zig-zag journey would take the team around the country and from fourth to ninth (and verging on 10th) in the West. All this punctuated by the blockbuster news that Anthony Davis wants out of New Orleans, followed immediately by speculation that all the Lakers would need to give up to win a trade sweepstakes would be the remainder of its once-vaunted youth brigade.