Like any great comedy show, the best jokes were saved for last.
The Los Angeles Lakers, who combined to orchestrate one of the most derided and catastrophically absurd campaigns that anyone can remember, are finally done.
They’re done because the mathematical computations say so, following a defeat to the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday that left them three games back of the Western Conference’s 10th spot with three games remaining, and a tiebreaker working against them.
But they’re really done because there is nothing else left. The show is over. The comedic pot has been emptied. For months, there has been so much for any non-purple-and-gold fan to laugh at, and now there’s simply no further scope for fresh material.
Who’s to blame for Lakers season woes? I UNDISPUTED
Shannon Sharpe explains why LeBron only deserves ‘5-8% blame’ for the season.
It was almost too much. Every day brought some fresh embarrassment for the rest of the league to chuckle over. Every other comment was quickly ushered into the category of “well, that didn’t age well,” often before it had had a chance to age at all.
The final nail, confirmation that a team boasting LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook would not get a sniff of the postseason, brought out the last bits of humor, and there were doozies among them.
If Los Angeles had shown a fraction of the creativity that the internet chuckle monsters employed by the time Wednesday morning rolled around, they’d be cruising into the playoffs instead of peering half-heartedly in from the window.
FROM ABOVE ARTICLE:
Like any great comedy show, the best jokes were saved for last.
The Los Angeles Lakers, who combined to orchestrate one of the most derided and catastrophically absurd campaigns that anyone can remember, are finally done.
They’re done because the mathematical computations say so, following a defeat to the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday that left them three games back of the Western Conference’s 10th spot with three games remaining, and a tiebreaker working against them.
But they’re really done because there is nothing else left. The show is over. The comedic pot has been emptied. For months, there has been so much for any non-purple-and-gold fan to laugh at, and now there’s simply no further scope for fresh material.
Who’s to blame for Lakers season woes? I UNDISPUTED
Shannon Sharpe explains why LeBron only deserves ‘5-8% blame’ for the season.
It was almost too much. Every day brought some fresh embarrassment for the rest of the league to chuckle over. Every other comment was quickly ushered into the category of “well, that didn’t age well,” often before it had had a chance to age at all.
The final nail, confirmation that a team boasting LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook would not get a sniff of the postseason, brought out the last bits of humor, and there were doozies among them.
If Los Angeles had shown a fraction of the creativity that the internet chuckle monsters employed by the time Wednesday morning rolled around, they’d be cruising into the playoffs instead of peering half-heartedly in from the window.