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Lakers guard Bronny James drives to the basket under pressure from Trail Blazers forward Kris Murray during Sunday's game in Portland, Ore. The Lakers sat in their locker room long after their loss to Portland on Sunday afternoon, their eyes glued to the television mounted on the wall. They'd done what they could, put themselves in a position through 81 games to have given themselves the No.
3 seed in the West playoffs. And on the 82nd game, they rested. The Lakers wrapped their regular season Sunday in Portland with not much more to do than sit and wait, and boy, did the Lakers sit and did they wait.
Advertisement And as the Clippers pulled away in the final moments of their win against the Warriors in Golden State, they finally knew where their road to their championship goal would begin. Voices Plaschke: JJ Redick for Dan Hurley was the Lakers' trade of the year When the UConn coach turned down a $70-million job offer to come to L.A.
, it might have been humiliating for the storied franchise but it ignited a rebirth. In Minnesota. "Better pack a coat," Jordan Goodwin said.
On Sunday, LeBron James and Luka Doncic didn't travel with...
Dan Woike.
