Charles Barkley has hilariously questioned whether or not he’s the explanation for the LA Lakers and LeBron James’s latest misfortunes, following a disastrous parlay wager on Tuesday night time.
Charles Barkley Calls Out ‘Bum’ LeBron James Following Lakers Loss
The Lakers suffered their third straight defeat on Tuesday night time as they struggled to fend off a free scoring Suns triad of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal, who all posted 20+ factors.
It was their second consecutive recreation permitting 127 factors following a crushing defeat at residence to the Nuggets, to which coach JJ Redick known as out his gamers for a “lack of aggressive spirit.”
Each of these defeats have seen LA collapse shortly after the half-time interval, conceding an inexcusable 37 and 36 factors within the third quarter to the Nuggets and Suns respectively.
Though not the form of numbers the Lakers needs to be coughing up in a single quarter, they’ve additionally struggled to offset these factors with scores of their very own. In the identical timeframe throughout the aforementioned video games, they put up a mixed measly 35 factors.
Early on Tuesday night time it gave the impression to be a straight shootout between Durant and LeBron, who have been going score-for-score within the first half, however very similar to their capitulation in opposition to Denver, this quickly tailed off.
1993 MVP and TV analyst Charles Barkley, who went 0-6 on his parlay, was left ruing one other dismal Lakers efficiency.
He even questioned whether or not it was his “fault LeBron is a bum” after the four-time MVP endured a quiet night time by his requirements, clocking in with 18 factors – seven fewer than Barkley wanted for his parlay – together with 10 assists.
Charles Barkley on going 0-6 on his parlay:
“Is it my fault LeBron’s a bum?”
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The Lakers proceed to play with a contradictory model; on the one hand their potent offense ranks fourth in offensive score throughout the league, however they incapability to shore up their protection sees all of them the way in which down at twenty seventh within the NBA in defensive score.
