This is a HeadGum Podcast.

Welcome to a new episode of Buckets.

Since the last one, the Lakers have been eliminated from playoff contention,

lost three starters, two for the season, and

one for maybe his career, and probably their coach. Experts are debating on TV whether

LeBron, now in a minutes restriction on a tanking team for the first time in his career should be

traded and if the Lakers under current ownership will ever be successful as a franchise ever

again.

And it's only been three weeks.

So what happened and why? For many Laker fans and

haters the biggest slice of their blame pie is Magic Johnson and Rob Polinka.

The men in charge of building this team traded a now all-star in D'Angolo Russell to create Max Capspace and instead of

landing another superstar, they just shoved Lance Stevenson, Michael Beasley, Ray John Rondo,

and Javel McGee into a a Paul George shaped hole.

Experts and morons alike scream from the top of their Twitter accounts,

why would you surround LeBron with that crazy band of misfits on one-year contracts?

He needs shooters!

And what about Luke Walton?

Commenters inquire.

Fire his ass.

His substitution pattern leaves full stretches of time

without any ball handling or scoring on the court.

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