LeBron James, since coming here last year, has finally led the Lakers to the postseason. The Lakers have not been in the postseason since 2012-2013, they clinched a playoff berth when they beat the Bucks 113-103 on Friday night.
“I came here to put this team and put this franchise back where they needed to be,” said James. “The league is not what it is if the Lakers are not winning. And that was one of my responsibilities, one of my goals when I came here.
Though the Bucks had Giannis Antetokounmpo who was scoring well, if he didn’t hurt his knee they might have been able to get the win but LeBron and the Lakers were doing all the right things to get the job done.
And let’s be honest we all knew they were going to avenge themselves from losing to the Bucks on December 19th before Christmas, the final score was 111-104 Bucks, now since they are in the playoffs they should be soaring high with LeBron and Davis.
“We know how well they’ve been playing as of late,” James said. “They’re at full strength. We’re at full strength. And we look forward to the challenge to see how we can match up with them again. So, you know, the first game, we kind of threw that game out the window. It’s the first game of the season. Who were we? Who were they? They had way more returning guys than we did [at that point]. We were still trying to figure out ourselves.
“And then the Christmas Day game, we didn’t play to our capabilities. We played great in the first half and then the second half we let it kind of get away from us. So we just look forward to see if we can continue to play good basketball, no matter win, lose or draw.”
