LeBron James Suffers Most Embarrassing Loss in Career as L.A Lakers Fails to Make NBA Playoffs with His Team

NBA star LeBron James has suffered an epic blow after his handpicked Los Angeles Lakers team failed to make the playoffs.

Since preseason title favorites were first announced before the 1984-85 NBA season, the top two teams have never failed to make the playoffs.

Until today.

LeBron James just made the wrong kind of history as the Lakers (no. 2 favorites) just got eliminated from the playoff becoming the first favored team to do so.

The Lakers implosion is one for the ages and LeBron, at least according to Magic Johnson deserves the blame.

Because he picked this team and his guys flopped, while the guys the management wanted are having career years.

โ€œExtremely disappointed,โ€ Lakers coach Frank Vogel said.

โ€œDisappointed for our fan base.

โ€œDisappointed for the Buss family, who gave us all this opportunity and we want to play our part in bringing success to Laker basketball and we fell short.โ€

โ€œWe just didnโ€™t get it done,โ€ said Carmelo Anthony.

โ€œWe had the tools,โ€ he added.

โ€œSome things were out of our control โ€” some things we could control, some things we couldnโ€™t.

โ€œAnd itโ€™s nothing else more than we didnโ€™t get it done.

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:You canโ€™t make no excuses about it. We just didnโ€™t get it done.โ€

Anthony Davis said:

โ€œOur goal was to win a championship. Feel like we had the pieces, but injuries got in the way of that. And that was the difference in the season.

โ€œI think even though we lost games where all of us was on the floor โ€” me, Bron, Russ โ€” I think weโ€™re three great players, but we would have figured it out if we logged more minutes together.

โ€œBut we werenโ€™t able to do that, which makes it tough to be able to compete for a championship when your three best players havenโ€™t logged enough minutes together.โ€

But it was Magic Johnson who made clear LeBronโ€™s ego did the team in.

Magic said the Lakers couldโ€™ve had possible league MVP DeMar DeRozan, Buddy Hield and Alex Caruso instead of Brian Westbrook. But LeBron wanted Westbrook.

Magic said: โ€œIf you sign DeRozan, you only trade Kuzma for Buddy Hield, we would be playing in the Western Conference championship this year with those two guys.โ€

From SI:

During an appearance on ESPNโ€™s Get Up, Magic Johnson was asked what was a fair criticism of LeBron James in regards to the Lakersโ€™ disappointing season.

Surprisingly, Johnson said James is to blame for Los Angeles not landing DeMar DeRozan in free agency.ย ย 

โ€œThe blame that heโ€™s gotta take is the fact that DeRozan ended up in Chicago and not with the Lakers,โ€ he said.

Johnson, who previously served as Lakers president of basketball operations, said that DeRozanโ€™s agent called him to let him know that DeRozan wanted to join the Lakers this past offseason. Johnson then told Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka.ย 

But instead of going with DeRozan in free agency, the team traded for Russell Westbrook, who was signed to the Wizards at the time.

This is where the blame comes on James, Johnson said.

James recruited Westbrook and the two were engaged in private conversations to coordinate the union, according to Johnson, and as a result DeRozan joined the Bulls, where heโ€™s having the best year of his career.

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