NBA Playoffs: Why the Los Angeles Lakers Won’t Beat Oklahoma City Thunder

It's time to stick a big fork in the Los Angeles Lakers and consider their 2012 edition cooked and done.

As much as I would love to be proven wrong, the Lakers are not going to defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder.  This is one major storm the Lakers just don't want any part of.

In a Game 1, 29-point blowout this past Monday, the aging, slow, non-athletic Lakers looked absolutely lost next to their young, athletic, fast Western Conference rivals.

Their heartbreaking, two-point loss on Wednesday was even worse.  The champion Lakers of 2009 and 2010 would have found a wa...

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