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Dan Woike: What's next for the Lakers

LOS ANGELES_It started with a dunk, a classic LeBron James one-handed tomahawk slam.

Eighty-two games ago, James' began his time with the Los Angeles Lakers with the perfect play, a dunk, the easiest two points in basketball. One possession later, he did it again, another right-handed smash, sending his teammates on the bench into a frenzy and the Lakers' fans who traveled to Portland into euphoria.

It looked so easy - the sport's simplest recipe - take an NBA team, add the game's best player and wait for the wins to pile up. Only the

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