That's a good question to wait and watch out,

Lakers with LeBron still have the chance, I just saying my point with Russ, if AD able to catch up and play with a healthy condition
they are still in this league.

Sorry for some emotion here, but just like a regular viewer, every game has a different opinion. Every performance counts.

Yeah, hopefully though they can still make the playoffs despite what's going on with the team. But I don't think that there will be trades, AD is not playing and that is a big minus for the team. I think Lebron and AD are still the core of Lakers and not Russ. And I would say that Russ game with Lakers is somewhat deteriorated, not sure what is the reason for that. Plenty of time to really figure out and maybe the all star break will help the Lakers.

They'll likely qualify in the playoffs but that's the best possibility I see because they'll never be in the WCF the way they are playing now. I never saw in the past that Lebron was able to turn things around when his team started with a bad season, so I don't expect a lot from the Lakers now.

I tend to agree Westbrook is not good for this team.  The only good thing is that he is available almost every game and they need more legs and not less given the age of this team.  I think the Lakers will sneak in but probably in the play in games.  A team like the Suns or jazz will eat them up in a series.

That what I'm also thinking, the Lakers being in the playoffs is their maximum limit and no more than that. Lakers this season is really having a bad start up until now especially without Anthony Davis to support LeBron James, they can't even withstand the Timberwolves who's rank at the conference is much more lower than the Lakers on the 7th.

Well it's really hard to base on the ranking though, I mean there are games that produce big upsets, like the Suns and Warriors losing game. But I do agree that Anthony Davis not playing is a big blow to the Lakers. Westbrook cannot cover, including Carmelo Anthony who is showing inconsistency in the last couple of games.

They need Davis to play on the floor to compliment Lebron. He can't handle all the scoring load for the team, while doing rebounds and assists and then some of his team mates are committing a lot of turn overs.

Trading AD and Russ would be better for the team but for me, Lebron leaving LA would be better especially if he wants another championship.

Lebron to Cleveland. That might be a good scenario to see at least. The Cavs has a young roster which has a good future like Sexton, Garland and Mobley and at the same time they have veterans who can help this young players like Love, Allen and Rubio (hoping for his fast recovery for next season). Just imagine if Lebron will be inserted into the roster. He can help the team and at the same time, train this young players to be all-star players in the future. The Cavaliers are at the playoff spot as of this moment and lets take note that they don't have any all-star player like the level of Giannis or Lebron.

Either way, what we all saying are just assumptions and nothing is certain to happen so... yeah but I agree that Lakers will enter the playoffs or I think at the play-in part.

Unless he really shows his prime years during his Celtics days, then maybe a team will finally give him at least a contract for this season. However with the Lakers, he just shows some glimpse of his former self and I'm not sure how big his numbers but he didn't contribute that much. But it's good to hear him joining another team and extended his NBA experience because of Covid, but I don't think that he will remain in the league.

It is such an important thing to have a popular team. Like Lakers is much worse than anticipated, they are 7th seed with 17-19 record right now and they have the toughest schedule left as well when you look at the winning rates, they are going to play winning teams more than they played so far. This should mean that they would be ignored like, we do not see people keep talking about rockets or thunder or pelicans, or pistons or magic.

However, we are talking about Lakers constantly. There is something that we need to realize the fact that you can't really lose with this team, not just the game but financially. They can build teams like this and be able to pay the salaries easily because even when they are losing they are getting the most attention.

I doubt IT will have an impact on about 2-3 games within the 10-day contract for the Dallas Mavericks. But who knows. The only reason that IT will have a long contract is if the team really expects something good for him for long.

Or hope that Mavericks will consider him as their other Point Guard as Luka Doncic is having a continuous absence and Jalen Brunson is not consistent.