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It's four three in the win.

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2020 NBA championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com live postgame show slash podcast.

The Lakers fall to the Philadelphia 76ers.

Final score 113 to 112.

Stop me if you've heard this before.

Lakers don't execute down the stretch and ultimately lose a game, which very easily could have

been a win.

I believe this is, I want to say eight or nine,

which is a lot.

I mean, the Lakers are only over the halfway point of games this season.

They're at what, 43 on the season.

Probably eight or nine of these.

The Lakers have been in it down the stretch,

big close,

and then found ways to lose

games that they probably should have won. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about, you know,

the 76ers had a essentially healthy squad against a very unhealthy Lakers team. Is that actually

a sign for optimism that the Lakers stayed close and almost won a game against one of the better teams in the East despite missing so many. Well, at some point, all of these close calls start to add up and your record starts to become more and more of a concern. If the Lakers were winning most of the closed games and they happen to drop this one, you could say, well, no AD, no Reeves, etc etc etc you know Pat Bab all all that and say but you know this team showed

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