Having LeBron James should do wonders for the Los Angeles Lakers, who are coming off a season in which they finished with just a 35-47 record and missed the playoffs cut for the fifth year in a row.
However, TNT personality and colorful character Charles Barkley doesn’t even think that the Lakers will conclude the regular season with a better record than any of the Denver Nuggets, San Antonio Spurs, and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Chuck's guarantees are BACK! 🤔 pic.twitter.com/nQuvcDSowG
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) October 16, 2018
Chuck is known for his bold takes, so this kind of projections shouldn’t come as a shock – at least to those who are very familiar with his rhetoric.
Charles Barkley might just have provided the James and company with some bulletin board material, as team gears for the start of their 2018-19 NBA campaign. That’s on schedule to happen this Thursday, when the Lakers pay Damian Lillard and the rest of the Portland Trail Blazers.
James is, without a question, the linchpin of this new-look LA team, which had quite a transformation in the offseason. Apart from securing James’ services for the next four years, the franchise also went out to sign veterans Michael Beasley, JaVale McGee, Lance Stephenson, and Rajon Rondo. They also drafted a pair of floor-spacers in rookies Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk and Moritz Wagner to add more dimension to the Lakers’ offense and supplemental pieces around James.
Obviously, Barkley isn’t impressed much by all these moves.
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