The Lakers entered this season as one of the top favorites to win a championship. Fast forward to today and Los Angeles are on the edge of being eliminated from postseason.

According to Lakers head coach Frank Vogel, it is his hardest season he has ever coached. “My hardest [season]? Yeah, I would say probably,” Vogel said. “Just because of the expectations that we’ve had. We’ve had too many difficult nights.

“And I think there’s an element of being a part of managing LeBron’s legacy for these final years of his career. You want to just give him the best opportunity to have team success throughout that.

“We haven’t won at the level that we wanted to, it’s been challenging and the losses have been heavier. We’ve been able to continue to mend and rebuild our team’s psyche and keep a belief in what we can be.

“Obviously, this last injury hurts that but we had a good day today. We came in today and we got really positive feedback and work on our film session, had a live practice which we haven’t had in quite some time. Hopefully, we can still get a W tomorrow [against Dallas] and finish strong.”