It didn't take long for even the most die-hard of Los Angeles Lakers fans to mentally check themselves out from the season. After all, LA looked far from the title contenders that seemed promised at the start of the 2021-22 season.
But apparently it wasn't just Lakers fans that started to zone out from the action. The players themselves may have been going on airplane mode on the season as well.
According to a report from Heavy, one Laker actually texted in front of Frank Vogel himself during halftime of a game. Said player even admitted he wasn't alone in his small-scale subversion:
On this night as the game was in progress, a friend working for another NBA team texted a Laker about getting together afterward. At halftime, something strange happened. The player texted back. The friend was even more stunned when he was told that coach Frank Vogel was standing in front of him.
“I couldn’t believe it. And later when we met up, he said he wasn’t the only motherf***** texting other people,” the employee told Heavy.
“He said it was nothing against Vogel. The players liked Frank and thought he knew what he was doing. They saw him as a good guy and a good basketball guy, but Frank had been marginalized too much. The Rambis component, the LeBron checking out component — it all served to sort of undermine Frank Vogel.”
With the Lakers' title hopes seemingly in the toilet so early into the season, you can't blame some of the players for thinking early about their dinner plans.
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