Why the Los Angeles Lakers Are Worse This Year Than Last Year

The Los Angeles Lakers are considered underdogs to repeat as NBA Champions and the more I consider that shocking fact, the more I have come to agree with it.  The truth is the Lakers are not even as good as they were last season when they barely beat the fourth seeded Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals.  

Many people have looked at the front office's off season moves and attempted to spin them as a positive rather than a negative for L.A., but I can not longer go along with such deceptions and this article will poke holes in the Los Angeles propaganda machine.  For argument's sake I will consider their main competition, currently the Miami Heat, as a measuring stick.

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