The Lakers were narrowly beaten by the Blazers (105-107) that were without their superstar Damian Lillard and recently traded CJ McCollum. Los Angeles missed Russell Westbrook who was out due to lower back soreness.
Both teams used a nine-player rotation with LeBron James (30 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists) and Anfernee Simons (29 points, 5 assists) leading L.A. and Portland respectively.
According to James Worthy, who won three NBA championships as a Laker, his former team has reached the lowest point that he has ever seen.
“This is the lowest point of just about any season I’ve seen as a Laker over the years. I don’t have any words for it because we’ve used all our words,” Worthy said on Spectrum SportsNet.
“We saw Milwaukee come in and we thought that maybe, okay, that’ll be a measuring game against a good team and we saw what happened. And then against Portland a team of professional players but it was almost like they were playing against local YMC pick up group of guys.
“And I think it just goes to show you how deeply mentally disconnected and the inability to fire your brain up for game that you know you should win or for any game for that matter shows that there’s a really tough virus going on with this team right now and I don’t know what the medicine is. This was really bad.”
