Due to a plethora of injuries, including one to LeBron James, that situation has changed entirely. Since then, the Lakers have lost four games in a row and dropped from the second seed to the fifth seed in the Western Conference.

LeBron James, sidelined for the past week with a groin strain suffered last weekend against the Boston Celtics, will be out for at least another week, according to ESPN. The injury began in the middle of an attempted fourth-quarter comeback for the Los Angeles Lakers against Boston, and nothing has gone right for them ever since.