The Los Angeles Lakers suffered their second consecutive loss of the 2024-25 NBA season on Tuesday night, falling to the Dallas Mavericks. After the game, LeBron James provided a candid assessment of the team’s performance.

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Lakers badly beaten at Dallas, which ends a five-game losing streak when playing without three starters, including Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving.

During his long tenure with the Dallas Mavericks, Dorian Finney-Smith was primarily an outside shooting threat and is settling into that role for the Los Angeles Lakers since arriving in Hollywood as part of the D’Angelo Russell trade with Brooklyn last week.

T he Mavericks are back home after another disappointing loss, this time to a shorthanded Grizzlies team. Tonight, they play the Lakers on TNT, which is the basketball equivalent