Quick timeline of the takes surrounding Lakers-Rockets, with a prediction on tomorrow’s.
April 17th: “The Lakers have NO chance. They’ll be lucky not to be swept.”
April 20th: “If LeBron pulls this off I’ll call him the GOAT.”
April 22nd: “The Rockets are frauds!”
April 25th: “The Rockets are the dumbest team I’ve ever seen! Anyone would beat them!”
April 30th: “The Lakers are cooked & LeBron is exhausted. Rockets in 7.”
May 1st: “LeBron is going to blow a 3-0 lead & his GOAT case is over!”
May 2nd: “Yeah, the Lakers won, but it’s actually not that impressive, the Rockets were pretenders.”
@RealSkipBayless Lebron on this team so Bro gottto find a way or content to hate to have us responding to his expected tweets.. I don't even know why tf I reached here still 😏🤬
Annnd just like that, as the Warriors lose to the Jokic-less Nuggets, there’s a defacto 3-way tie for 5th in the West, with the Lakers, Clippers & Warriors all having 38 losses.
Due to the tiebreakers, if they all were to finish with the same record it’d be:
5: LAC
6: LAL
7: GSW
Skip Bayless has 2,257,285 messages addressed to “LeBron” in his 28-year career.
It is now the highest one-sided communication relationship in human history without a response, surpassing North America and extraterrestrials.