Lakers RSS Feed| Rank | Team | Record |
| 1 | Sacramento Kings | 48-34 |
| 2 | Phoenix Suns | 45-37 |
| 3 | Los Angeles Clippers | 44-38 |
| 4 | Golden State Warriors | 44-38 |
| 5 | Los Angeles Lakers | 43-39 |
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You wonder if, given the choice, LeBron James would transform into his younger self. It would improve his championship odds, but his total understanding of the sport would diminish.
Since their meeting in the 2020 bubble, the Lakers and Nuggets had two seasons lost due to key injuries. Denver is now a little older and at their competitive zenith while LeBron and A.D. may not have this good of a chance together again.
As the Lakers overtook the Grizzlies, the most staunchly anti-LeBron minds of his generation warped in real-time, before us, into the Boomers they so gleefully mock. James is now a totemic mirror for elder millennials in a way that no other American athlete has been.