D'Angelo Russell used criticism and doubt to fuel his 44-point performance in the Lakers' 123-122 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night.
D’Angelo Russell walked back onto the court where, an hour earlier, he’d just wrapped up his best basketball game as a Laker. He grinned as he looked at the mostly empty Crypto.com Arena. The Lakers had just beaten the Milwaukee Bucks 123-122 without LeBron James. Russell made the go-ahead basket to give him 44 points. He’d scored 21 of the Lakers’ 27 points in the fourth quarter, tied for the third most by a Lakers player in the final quarter. It was his moment. In his mind, it always is.
Yeah, he’s talented, but does he affect winning? The nonexistent trade market left little doubt the answer teams had. “With my craft and my talent on the floor, I've always felt like I was capable of doing things. Getting hot makes it a little more exciting throughout a game,” Russell said in his postgame news conference. “Off the floor, obviously, you know what I've been through. Public humiliation has done nothing but molded me into the killer that y'all see today.
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