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May 23, 2024 | 
silverscreenandroll.com | Cooper Halpern
Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images Welcome to our Lakers Season Review Series! For the next several weeks, we’ll be writing columns every weekday, breaking down the biggest questions we have about every player on the Lakers roster. Today, we take a look at Spencer Dinwiddie. After the L.A. native Spencer Dinwiddie decided on a homecoming following a buyout by the Raptors, Laker fans embraced his grit and passion for the purple and gold.
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May 21, 2024 | 
silverscreenandroll.com | Cooper Halpern
Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images Welcome to our Lakers Season Review Series! For the next several weeks, we’ll be writing columns every weekday, breaking down the biggest questions we have about every player on the Lakers roster. Today, we take a look at Cam Reddish. Based on his pre-professional reputation, Cam Reddish’s career to date is arguably one of the most disappointing of any NBA player in recent years.
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
silverscreenandroll.com | Cooper Halpern
Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Despite another early double-digit lead, something that happened twice in Denver’s four-game sweep of the Lakers in last year’s Western Conference Finals, history repeated itself as the Nuggets rumbled past the Lakers in the third, running away with Game 1 on Saturday, 114-103.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
silverscreenandroll.com | Cooper Halpern
Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images By clawing their way to the West’s eighth seed, the Lakers have earned a rematch with the Pelicans and a chance to punch their ticket into the playoffs. While a loss would leave them with a do-or-die game against the winner of Warriors-Kings to win their way into the postseason, a dub would lock them into the seventh seed...matched up against the second-seeded Denver Nuggets.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
msn.com | Cooper Halpern
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
silverscreenandroll.com | Cooper Halpern
Photo by Kenny Giarla/NBAE via Getty Images Last season, the Lakers finished 43-39, earning the West’s seventh seed and the right to host the eighth seed in the play-in. This season, they have won more games with fewer losses, at 44-33, but they are farther away from earning a spot in the first round of the playoffs.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
silverscreenandroll.com | Cooper Halpern
Photo by Justin Ford/Getty Images You can’t really compare LeBron James to his peers. Not because it would be unfair to LeBron, but because he doesn’t have any. In the 21st year of one of the greatest careers in the NBA’s history, LeBron is doing what no player has ever done. But if you’ve paid any attention to the Lakers this season, you already knew that. LeBron has continued to break records at such a breakneck pace that he’s made the impossible seem inevitable.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
silverscreenandroll.com | Cooper Halpern
Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images After restructuring their team at the 2022-23 NBA season trade deadline, the Lakers turned their season around, closing the campaign with the second-best defense in the NBA and winning 18 of their 26 final games. That run, of course, trampolined the team into a playoff push that ended four games short of the NBA Finals.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
silverscreenandroll.com | Cooper Halpern
Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Through 58 games, the Lakers season has been rockier than the franchise must have expected. Despite the best run of simultaneous health LeBron James and Anthony Davis have shared since the 2019-20 NBA championship-winning season, the Lakers sit at only 31-27 and in the Western Conference’s ninth seed. Right now, even with a winning record, the math paints a pretty bleak picture in terms of making the playoffs.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
silverscreenandroll.com | Cooper Halpern
Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images Through 49 games of the season, the Lakers, a game below .500 at that point, reached what felt like a nadir. After dropping back-to-back games against losing teams, they appeared to be incapable of winning games without herculean efforts from both LeBron James and Anthony Davis. The season looked lost, regardless of whether or not Rob Pelinka could make some deadline magic to inject some life into the Lakers’ lackluster roster.
