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Stephen A. this morning said Luka Doncic was faking his injury after the team was getting blown out, per @FirstTake 🤦‍♂️ “It was almost so that it’s a good thing that Luka actually got hurt and had to get taken out in the 3rd quarter because when we saw him holding his hamstring in the first half a lot of was like, wait a minute now that wasn’t happening when you were dropping 30+ the last 15 games. But suddenly now your damn hamstring is hurt.” Now he’s out indefinitely for the year…

Darvin Ham says the Lakers had to gut their roster for Russell Westbrook and that it’s hard to compete with so many lower-level role players “But in terms of Russ, man, you know, it was a difficult situation. ’Cause to get a player like that, you pretty much have to gut your team — and that’s essentially what happened. In order to get Russ on the Lakers, they had to part ways with Alex Caruso, KCP, Kyle Kuzma, and a lot of other players they weren’t able to keep because the money wasn’t there. Now you’ve got three essentially supermax players on your roster. And you know, now you’ve got to go after lower-level players who — God bless them — they’re capable players, but to be elite and win a championship in our league, you have to be elite and have an elite group. A lot of times, the financial constraints just won’t allow you to do that.” (Via hoopshype.com/story/sports/n…)