There’s no one to truly blame when looking at the underwhelming Los Angeles Lakers, but it doesn’t appear to be any solutions anywhere around Crypto.com Arena.
It shifts like a spotlight from a helicopter looking for a fugitive in the dead of night. First, it’s Frank Vogel and his job security. Now it’s Russell Westbrook being benched for being … Russell Westbrook.
As if we haven’t seen his movies before, as if history wasn’t predicting his athletic decline after years of playing with reckless abandon in pursuit of greatness, statistics and shutting up the vocal critics.