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'LeBron needs to take out the trash,' Gilbert Arena BOLD message to the Lakers star

With the trade deadline quickly approaching, the former NBA player tells LeBron James to take out the players who aren't working this season

By James Brown

LeBron James, Anthony Davis & Gilbert Arenas
LeBron James, Anthony Davis & Gilbert Arenas
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35 games in the season, the Los Angeles Lakers are under .500 with a 17-18 record, which was unthinkable after the offseason the front office pulled off in the summer, but injuries, bad coaching by Darvin Ham, and some of the signing underperforming have affected the team.

The offseason had players arriving in Los Angeles like Gabe Vincent, Cam Reddish, Taurean Prince, Jaxson Hayes, and Christian Wood. After 35 games, Vincent has been out because of a knee injury that needed surgery, Hayes and Christian Wood haven't played enough, and even when Cam and Prince are starters they have been inconsistent for the most part.

The team as a whole isn't working even when LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and Austin Reaves have stayed healthy and playing some of their best basketball, still, the team keeps losing, and with the most recent defeat to one of the most injured teams, the Miami Heat, that didn't have their best star, Jimmy Butler, former NBA player Gilbert Arenas has sent a bold message to the Lakers superstar.

In the most recent episode of the podcast Gil's Arena, the former NBA player Gilbert Arenas sent a clear message to LeBron to take out the trash of the team. Arenas stood up with a garbage bag and called out LeBron to put the bag in the lockers of some of the superstar's teammates like Reddish and Prince. Cam and Taurean didn't score a single point against Miami and had around 30 minutes of playtime each, which also shows Darvin's bad decision-making that now has him in danger of staying as the team's head coach.

The Lakers players aren't content with Coach Ham's statements

For Austin Reaves and Anthony Davis, the team is talented enough to overcome the different injuries, but coach Ham believes that he doesn't have his roster healthy, which is contradictory as when he has had all of them, doesn't play enough players.


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