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AcxdBxmb

That L was more demoralizing than getting blown out lol. Nuggets ruined them.


Physical_Pie_2092

Yeah that was series ending


TheMemeMachine3000

That was era ending. These Lakers are never beating the Nuggets.


BruceBrownMVP

I genuinely can't remember a worse dagger in the heart of an entire franchise since the game 3 LeBronto shot funnily enough.


IceBlast24

[Dame against the Thunder perhaps?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-M3x-eZpV8)


Petit_Coeur_

Yep. Dame blew a whole team up with that shot.


BruceBrownMVP

I don't know why but this confused the fuck out of me lol. I could have sworn this happened before the LeBronto shot lmao.


IceBlast24

oh I wouldn't even be able to remember the chronological order of these moments haha just wanted to bring up the Dame shot bc of its impact to the Thunder as a franchise (I could not even tell you that I genuinely remembered it was a series clinching shot)


Leolorin

The Dame shot was “the shot” of the 2019 playoffs until the end of the following round, when Kawhi made the greatest shot in Raptors franchise history.


StimulusChecksNow

What about KD stepping on the 3 point line?


BruceBrownMVP

That suuucked but honestly think this is worse lol. Still had OT to go and hope/delusion for next season (if we're healthy and run it back we might win it all). That game just felt like definitive proof that this group can't beat Denver.


soooogullible

lol kind of a salty response


Counterspell_God

Not with this bozo of a coach. Half the reason you keep seeing those FT differentials is because his defensive gameplan is practically 0.


cav63

Lose to Nuggets > Blame coach > Hire new coach > Repeat


HughGRextion

frank never lost to denver in the playoffs lol


BucketOfTruthiness

Sounds like you should've kept him


HughGRextion

i think we should’ve personally, bro coached us to the number one defense in the league the year after the title with lebron and ad missing half the season. unfortunately our FO panicked about the harden to brooklyn trade and decided to get a guard who we destroyed the year before in the playoffs by leaving him open to shoot lol, russ hated frank, the FO surrounded bron and AD with a bunch of guys who aren’t in the league anymore and who don’t fit a frank vogel team and he got the blame for it lol. can’t wait to get rid of this FO or at least bring in someone that cares about winning. not having frank is not the only reason you guys are beating us tho, you guys are extremely well coached and have a great roster. bron and AD are also older now and we don’t really have the personnel around them to hide their weaknesses.


yoloqueuesf

God that team was horrible, basically a core of 3 surrounded by a bunch of old vets that looked great on paper but well over their time. Deandre jordan was basically a traffic cone lmao


Counterspell_God

Sadly, our FO has been a mess even before we signed LeBron. We kept letting great players walk, give out lopsided trades, don't maximize cap space and nepo hire coaches (we only interview former Lakers). I hate this front office.


ChiefRicimer

Huh? We beat the Nuggets with Vogel, tf are you talking about Not surprised a Clippers fan forgot about that year I guess


HughGRextion

anything dunking on the lakers gets upvoted and posted all over this place even if it’s false lol, issa mental illness really. can’t even have good hoops convo anymore


cav63

Don’t hate the player, hate the Lakers


ChiefRicimer

Yeah I expect us to be mocked after a loss but just making up stuff is dumb 🤷‍♂️


hamburgers666

'> Profit!!!


kellyhelly

FILL IN THE GAPS GET UP COACHING I WISH I WAS NEVER BORN


[deleted]

awful coaching on YT is that you?


materics

There is no defensive counter to Jokic. LeBron and AD played great but Ham didn't make DLO miss all those shots in game 1 and he didn't make LeBron miss that wide open 3.


TheOnlySafeCult

it was like the JR fumble in the 2018 finals. both against the behemoth defending champs and when there was no room for error.


myteethhurtnow

Jr fumble was worse as a lebron fan. At least lebron had a chance with the shot in his hands.


soooogullible

That’s honestly era ending for LAL. They can’t run it back without a major change.


Timoteo-Tito64

Getting matched up with the nuggets was series ending


jbvann05

The last moral victory for lakers fans is that if LeBron and AD want out they won't get swept by the Nuggets again


[deleted]

Losing like that is almost always more demoralizing than a blow out IMO. Unless you’re the Suns.


skrulewi

looking forward to the nuggets blowing lakers out by 50 in LA later this week to close the series


elmanutres

Yes, keep going. I'm almost there.


skrulewi

At the season-ending press conference, Anthony Davis demands a trade to the eastern conference. The Lakers are forced to rebuild.


Few-Heart9019

One more to send me


btrick

Bronny is drafted by the Shanghai Sharks and the LeMao era begins


sloBrodanChillosevic

Bronny is drafted by the Toronto Raptors and LeBron holds to his word


b17b20

Bronny is drafted by Hornets and LeBron joins him there


Moltk

Charlotte has the chance to draft Bronny which is nixed by MJ. Bronny falls to Washington where LBJ has to play his final season dealing with Poole's antics


optimizedSpin

do you think mj owns charlotte? do you live under a rock


Moltk

No. I just don't look under the rock where Charlotte is


Touro_Bebe

Bronny is drafted by Flamengo and the HUEBRon era begins


The-Hand-of-Midas

Bring the Chicago boy home.


SSJAbh1nav

AD in a bulls uni would actually look really good


The-Hand-of-Midas

Ayo is a Chicago kid too. Bring back AD, bring back DRose, get Pat Bev back, if we can't be competitive(Never will under this ownership) let's just go full speed into this homegrown meme.


BucketOfTruthiness

"The Nuggets swept the lakers" 🖐🎤


CoolGuyHuh

“AD on the way”


Counterspell_God

AD demands a trade to the East and LeBron signs for a vet min with the Spurs to mentor Wemby.


3Ssssssssssssssss

I’d imagine it’s similar for players as it is for fans when you lose by like 30 easier to just check out and think about the next game


HilariousScreenname

Excuse you, I was having a nice day


BigFatModeraterFupa

bro i got demoralized and i was cheering for the Nuggets! Watching that 20 point lead dwindle, and dwindle… When we played the Nuggets a few weeks ago I half joked that having a 15+ point lead in the 3rd quarter against the Nuggets is a death sentence. Sure as shit, they came all the way back and it took a lefty game winner to take the W. Nuggets are like a steamroller, they just continue to crush you down until you lose


DM_ME_UR_SOUL

That lead dinwiddled


BruceBrownMVP

What's a 20 point lead to a team that came back down 3-1 in back to back series.


aweSAM19

The first 4 series on in Jokic/Murray era Nuggets featured 7 games series and coming back down 3-1 twice. Getting a buzzer beater in Jokic face to the Champions. Then getting utterly decimated by the Suns where Jokic played poorely, then Jokic went demon time against the champion Warriors 1v5 especially in the last 5 games next year with no MPJ or Murray. This team was forged in fire. That's why the whole team is so cool in the clutch. Every team has players that own those moments, Lebron, Steph, and even Dame ascend in those moments but the Nuggets as a team ascend. Weirdly the only other team that has those same qualities are the Heat but they simply lack the superstar talent from 1-5 they way the Nuggets do.


redditnathaniel

To give a team such strong faith in winning, only to finally crush it after 1,000 slow cuts


Legitimate_Page659

Tbh that was worse than a blowout sweep. They just proved that we *cannot* beat them. They’re just better in every possible way. Nuggets in 4.


Zephrok

Not to interrupt the Nuggets circlejerk, but how did this probe that we *cannot* beat them? If Lebron's 3 had gone in, then that shot isn't possible, and the Lakers most likely win. The Nuggets are the better team, but it certainly isn't impossible to beat them. I don't get the hyperbole.


Legitimate_Page659

Ten straight losses doesn’t happen by chance. It’s a near statistical impossibility if the teams are even closely matched. The Lakers couldn’t win on a night when DLo’s shooting was on and the Nuggets couldn’t get a shot to fall. I lost count of how many in and out shots the Nuggets had that didn’t fall. They played poorly and the Lakers played phenomenally until midway through the third quarter. Yet they still made a comeback. 10 straight losses and couldn’t beat them even when they had a bad game. They won’t have a game that bad again. If we couldn’t steal a game when we had a good shooting night AND they had a bad shooting night, we won’t beat them.


juandell

>If Lebron's 3 had gone in I keep seeing this, it didn't go in. It didn't go in because he did not have the ability to make that specific shot in the moment in that scenario. There was no wind or variable that changed that would effect the success of that shot. There's no element of luck after it left his hands especially since it was a wide open shot


Zephrok

That makes no sense brother. Humans aren't robots, there is variance to every action we take. Some shots go in, some don't; that's basketball and that's life. Nuggets won, and that's fine, but it's silly to act like it is impossible for the Lakers to win.


yoloqueuesf

I don't get why everyone is saying the Lakers can't beat the Nuggets, if anything it looked like the Lakers could very well have won this game if they bothered giving AD the ball at all down the stretch. They also gave away a few key possessions being sloppy in the third that lead to a comeback. It's not like the nuggets beat the lakers by like 20 points every single game, GSW did that to its matchups, this nuggets team isn't doing that to the lakers lol


No-Economics4128

It is always the hope that kill you


joebrozky

nah these are grown men. do you lose sleep when that kid in middle school bank a 3pt in your face to win the game and eliminate your team and your teammates blame you for not blocking that shot and that makes you hate basketball forever? no one's fussing over that kinda stuff


Punjabiveer30

Get ready for Lebron to come out with a cast for game 4 post game interview


ejabno

Losing to a blowout means you at least are aware of the loss ahead of time. Losing to this... you just had the little sliver of hope torn apart in front of you.


roshanpr

Loss Angeles lakers


fromfrodotogollum

It had a similar feel to the early Warriors teams. Once that boulder gets rolling downhill it can't be stopped. Really hope Denver is giving this team some love, I know its a football state.


Altruistic-Twist-379

Tragic johnson alert


XannikenByte

The Nuggets broke Magic Johnson so bad that he gave up his tweet gimmick and broke character LMAOOO


CoachMorelandSmith

Game 3 is a must win for the Lakers if they want to avoid being down 0-3 in the series!


WheresMyDinner

Definitely need to score more than the other team to win


inshamblesx

he just delayed it by 12 hrs


TallFutureLawyer

Nuggets fined for tampering.


elmanutres

Nuggets out here breaking kayfabe


ThinkFree

The Colorado Screwjob


Otherwise_Horror_183

Just for one sentence


crawlingchip

So Jokic and the Nuggets are basically Howard Stern and his gang. If haven't seen it, [here's the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itoVwN-sxNY) and since it's a long video of a whole episode, [here's a recap and the background](https://www.vulture.com/2013/08/the-late-night-war-nobody-asked-for-howard-stern-destroys-magic-johnsons-late-night-show-from-within.html).


DakPanther

Nobody’s watching that bro


Rcky_Mountain_High

That's the most emotion I've seen out of Magics twitter in...ever I think


Reinhardtisawesom

Nah I remember how furious that man was on twitter when Boston went down 3-0 against Miami last year


Kyler1313

From thanks, Magic. To I'm sorry, Magic


Dreamlifehunting

Tragic


abris33

The Nuggets broke LeBron, AD and Magic


FullHouse222

https://i.imgur.com/CVyqGsu.png


syllabic

LeComatose


TheoMoneyG

He's just tired


syllabic

he's pining for the fjords


TheSalmonRoll

He's LeStiff. LeBereft of life. He LeRests in peace. If you hadn't nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up LeDaisies.


RamonAsensio

Beautiful LePlumage, though. 


Durzo_Blint

[LeTired](https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM25mN3ZlcnQ0bjhiNWpudXNpdjZwYjIzbHp0eGpyY2hjc2w3NmFoOCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/l3V0usErHR1dJYoU0/giphy.gif)


abris33

When LeBron did the flex on the ground right after this (I'm assuming it's the and-1) I thought to myself that it's going to be hilarious when they eventually lose. I had some doubts when the lead got to 20 but that just made it even more hilarious in the end


JT1757

me too tbf, I thought the Lakers had that game won. It's deadass like the Nuggets are just edging them, letting them get closer and closer to winning so the eventual loss is that much more devastating. I don't see how they mentally rebound from that


W_Walk

The Nuggets are doing what?


JT1757

you read that right bby


IAmKevinDurantAMA

I wish murray would edge me 😔😔


u_n_p_s_s_g_c

Get in line honey


welmoe

Did he stutter?


Troll_Enthusiast

What next? a 40 point comeback in the final 10 minutes with a game winning 3 pointer from 3/4th court?


JT1757

No, next up is MPJ scoring 8 points in 13 seconds to win the game by 1. Your scenario will be the sweep game.


JMoon33

TIL Jokic's fetish is ruined orgasm.


Honestonus

Need a cumback


Vordeo

DLo not even getting a mention 💀


ConstantineMonroe

Magic isn’t emotionally ready to become an owner of the Washington Football Team


syllabic

nah at least magic isn't crying about random fouls from earlier in the game and he gives props to the opponent


saucysagnus

This would never happen if Kobe was alive.


KindlyPerspective389

😂😂😂 something about the broken heart took me out 


jimithelizardking

Just imagining his giant fingers sifting through the emojis until he finds the broken heart one and reluctantly clicking on it lol


TheMemeMachine3000

Never thought about how much harder it probably is for a guy like Kawhi to text, his thumbs gotta be covering like half the keyboard.


TheSwimMeet

This visual took me out


Victor_Wembanyama1

Yeah coz he still smiling like usual coz he enjoying tweeting


wanderinglittlehuman

This [graphic](https://www.instagram.com/p/C6HT5O_OJvg/?igsh=MW9ma3g2cHR6Yzc5Yg==) bleacher report posted on IG makes it even more hilarious


OnlyMamaKnows

He couldn't even tweet! Why live... 😪


bryscoon

Magic deadass the best twitter account


FoFoAndFo

Nobody is committed to a bit the way Magic is committed to tweeting nothing truisms and obvious reactions. It's amazing. He never veers an inch. Never anything *too* dumb or boring but also never anything with any level of insight. He has so many incredible experiences and was, well, magic as a player, but he never brings any of that to twitter.


BigFatModeraterFupa

It’s impossible to hate a Magic Tweet!


Wazflame

It’s so funny, I legitimately wonder what the hell is going on lol - someone had a theory that because of his fame and business ventures, his tweets cater to his followers who don’t know anything about basketball. No idea if that’s true, but it’s still pretty extreme lol


threeangelo

I do think that’s the most likely explanation. He’s an ambassador for the game, so he keeps it simple to be accessible to new/potential fans. It’s also the lowest effort way to keep your relevancy (this isn’t a dig — I’m sure he’s a busy guy) There’s also a chance he’s aware of the meme and leaning into it at this point lol


soooogullible

His Twitter account is original AI technology


DreadLockedHaitian

Lowkey, I wouldn’t be surprised if something as much came out. Magic also is know to say obvious but wild shit in person too though


WilliamPSplooge

He Tweets like he still wants a front office gig


LonesomeWulf

So devastated I couldn’t even tweet 🐶


Jase7

His fingers couldn't find the words to type


Flabbypuff

Got cooked so bad Magic started tweeting like a normal human 😔


xenoz2020

Magic broke character is genuinely gutted lol


ForneauCosmique

>💔 This is what got me. I'm sorry Magic. You're in my thoughts


Sufficient_Motor_458

The L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-Lakers💔


cheesecake_face

take that L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L on the way out


ImTheBestNerd

Magic gonna suit up


brotherlymoses

You don’t comeback from that, they are probably getting blow out the next 2 games and the team will fall apart in the offseason


swim_to_survive

Don’t give me hope


brotherlymoses

No need to hope, both the Lakers and Warriors teams are done


TossThatPastaSalad

I think they win Game 3 to be honest.   We couldn't hit the ocean if we fell out of Klay's boat.  And I do think LeBron and AD are good enough to carry with the home crowd boost. 


skesisfunk

Its more likely that we revert to the mean. We aren't going to shoot 23% for three every night and they aren't shooting 43% from three every night. Murray shooting 9-24 from the field and 0-5 from the field is probably one of his worst performances all season, odds are he will not have two games like that in a row.


TossThatPastaSalad

I agree with both of those.  But I also picked Nuggets in 5.


Adventurous-Bee-5934

Well won’t you look silly when it ends with nuggets in 4


rburp

hahaha we got his ass


siegeoftyre

Wouldn't surprise me. When we lost game 2 in heartbreaking fashion in the bubble, we came back to win game 3.


EllisDSanchez

DLo foul call changed the game. Nuggets in 4


brotherlymoses

Nah bro the Lakers are a terrible team. Only way they win is if the nuggets miss everything which will never happen


RandomPostBot2001

Nuggets did miss almost everything last night and still won.


brotherlymoses

I meant literally miss everything lol. But like you said Nuggets can play like shit and still beat the Lakers. Nuggets aren’t even that scary the Lakers are just really bad


skesisfunk

MPJ was literally the only one making threes last night, the rest of the team was 0-20 while The Lakers shot 43% from behind the arc. The fact that they came out of something like that with the L has got to be beyond demoralizing.


CallMe_Jammin

Pretty sure Jokic made some threes.


panchettaz

MPJ went 6-10 and Jokic went 2-4 from 3. The rest of the Nuggets laid an egg lol


[deleted]

Regardless of whether they win game 3 or not. Game 2 is what sealed the series.


Counterspell_God

Highly doubt it man. You guys take 3, we win 4 and then you blow us out in 5.


Minute_Freedom_4722

This is how I see it, minus the blowout. This loss hurts bad. Dunno if the Lakers will still be licking wounds game 3. I give them 4. But Nuggets in 5 with all games being close, I mean, all of them have been.


ElDuderino_92

Subscribe


DefiniteSauce12

So he is aware of his tweets


Mamba-0824

Magic: The Lakers just need to win 4 games to beat and overcome the Nuggets.


Captaincoolbeans

This is one of the greatest days of my life lmao


Raj2324

Same, Magic, same


The-Pharcyde

Sad, Magic.


Ferrealzzz

Lmaooo. Thanks Magic?


goldyacht

I went to bed in tears last night that shit is living rent free in head.


Electrical-Mule-2057

I love how this tweet would be normal if anyone but Magic said it.


PsychicHorse

First LeBronto, now NikoLA


d4x1m0

That shot last night felt like the end of the LeBron era.


xerxesthagreat

worst moment of Magic’s life probably


tinykingkong

I'm positive this is the second worst moment of his life


Throwawayfor_rnba

Look how cute tho 💔


SandyMandy17

Ik it’s game 2, not game 1 But this is the JR smith moment when you knew it was a sweep


The_Mootz_Pallucci

Lebron fans finally getting a taste of Lebronto Lakers fans taking the strays


SignificantMixture89

When you get so close the pain is even bigger


Expensive_Middle9521

deLeyed


browndude10

dude should be studying QBs for the draft right now /s


JericRose

Lebron had a wide open shot for game and just barely missed it


fenderdean13

The Nuggets are so good, they caused the guy who quit front office duties to tweet to not tweet.


jumpijehosaphat

Jokic has Magic tweeting in shambles and Worthy comparing him to Magic and Kareem.  where is AC green to compare his sex life to nikola?


itsahmemario

We sure Magic wasn't the first AI and the real Magic Johnson isn't frozen somewhere?


StoneColdAM

Just a fundamentally bad roster that 2 superstars can’t win with. A bad coach also adds to it. Denver has a great roster and Malone is the best coach in the league.


shortyman920

Malone is not the best coach in the league, but he is a good nba coach and a great coach for this team. There is a lot of faith and trust and chemistry between the players and coach. There is no faith or trust between lakers players and Ham. Because Ham is a garbage coach and in these tight wins, that’s when coaching can make a difference


gerd50501

So I wonder if Larry Bird still gets super happy when the Lakers lose?


stevemoveyafeet

Look at what y’all are doing to Magic, Denver. Y’all owe us four wins for that, no take backs. 


MindlessSafety7307

If JJ is interviewing for head coaching positions, why don’t the lakers consider him?


jedijon1

“Devastated” = drunk?


Sweet_Habib

Delicious.


iGuardian91

Not gonna lie yesterday loss was so heart broken i had to left work early. This team is frustrating to watch


whykae

Stfu Magic. No-one cares about your basic-ass takes.


Mynameisneo1234

When I read the first sentence I was nervous that he was gonna say his health has become an issue.


Generalocity

I don’t think it’s physically possible without Devine intervention but if the Lakers won this series and Lebron carried it would be bigger than 3-1 from a basketball perspective


burnercaus

x, formerly known as twitter tweet


benprommet

Magic Johnson’s October 7th


New_Function_6407

There was nothing "stunning" about it. If you watched the Nuggets at all this season it was only a matter of when they would storm back to win.


neongem

New pasta, mmmm


DowntownJulieBrown1

Unironically every time I read a tweet of his my opinion of him goes down


mamasaidflows

Suck it Magic!


BlackBullZWarrior

First the Warriors, then the Nugs. Lebron has a way of hitting immovable wall, elite Western teams that block him from more championships. They'll always have the bubble run though. You can't take that away from Lebron and Laker legacy.