Sports analyst Skip Bayless thinks that the new-look Lakers are better and have what it takes to directly qualify for the playoffs.
Not only that. He thinks that Los Angeles is good enough to go all the way to the Western Conference finals where he expects the Suns to be.
“The Lakers are 30% better without Westbrook and with all the new additions. They’ll go 17-6 in their final 23 and will rise above the play-in. I wouldn’t be surprised if they played Phoenix in the West finals,” the co-host of UNDISPUTED tweeted after the Lakers defeated the Warriors comfortably (124-111).
