The player everybody expected to be traded might be a key component of the team’s postseason hopes.
Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell reacts to making a 3-point shot during the first half of their game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night at Crypto.com Arena. Russell scored 44 points, including the game-winning basket with 5.9 seconds left, and shot 9 for 12 from 3-point range. Unpredictability, to be clear, in terms of never knowing exactly what you’re going to get out of this group.
But the details and the numbers, in this case, are less important than the glimmer of hope a night like this provides, even if so many of those other hopeful moments have been fool’s gold for a team that is 35-30 and, by Friday night, was a half-game ahead of 10th-place Golden State at the bottom of the play-in zone.
Yet as this season’s trade deadline approached, most of the league’s pundits had zeroed in on Russell as the guy most likely to go, his defense still an issue and his role reduced from starter to sub for a while with injury scrambling his role as well.
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