Los Angeles Times

Bill Plaschke: Mirror, mirror on the wall, don't blame Walton for the fall

LOS ANGELES_When assessing blame for the wreckage that is the Lakers without LeBron James, management needs to look in one place. It's not Luke Walton, who is still evolving along with his impossibly mismatched team.

It's not Brandon Ingram or Lonzo Ball or Lance Stephenson or any of the other disappointing players who comprise that team.

It's the mirror.

When looking at the reason for this awful group that would be in the lottery without James, Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka need to look no further than themselves.

This is their creation. These are their guys. Some, they drafted high. Others, they have protected in

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times6 min readAmerican Government
Young Voters Don't Give Biden Credit For Passing The Biggest Climate Bill In History
President Joe Biden spent his Earth Day in a national forest this year with an explicit pitch to young people: a climate jobs corps intended to excite Gen Z the way John F. Kennedy's Peace Corps inspired their grandparents. Biden took a selfie with R
Los Angeles Times3 min readAmerican Government
LZ Granderson: Trump's Racist 'Welfare' Dog Whistle Is Nonsense Just Like Reagan's
Donald Trump took his dog whistle down to Florida last weekend, where he reportedly told a room full of donors: "When you are Democrat, you start off essentially at 40% because you have civil service, you have the unions and you have welfare." He the
Los Angeles Times6 min read
A Tale Of Two Downtowns In LA: As Offices Languish, Apartments Thrive
By many measures, downtown Los Angeles’ newest apartment tower is over the top with such gilded flourishes as stone tiles from Spain lining the elevator cabs and hand-troweled Italian plaster on interior walls. Hummingbirds have somehow found the fru

Related Books & Audiobooks