The Lakers Shot for the Stars and Landed in a Black Hole

Getty Images/Ringer illustration After losing out on Dan Hurley, Los Angeles reportedly interviewed JJ Redick for the head coaching gig this weekend. But hiring the podcaster won't distract from the fact that the old way of doing things doesn't work anymore. It is not the end times in La La Land, but things appear to stand one Celtics win and a dusting of brimstone away from it. Bitter rivals are frolicking in the front yards of many Lakers faithfuls' mental abodes. Dan Hurley just dropped a master set of keys to the club like they were molten. Management is on the case, though it may, in fact, also be the perp it's looking for. Rinse, repeat, insert a generic Magic Johnson tweet, and you've got another batch of late-stage Lakers doom. This fan, for one, kindly requests that somebody, anybody—though my preference is the nepo heiress responsible for as many losing seasons in a decade than in the preceding four combined—please, just make it all stop. A partial list of Laker self-owns in the past six weeks, all of which manage to tread the line between biblical, bewildering, and buffoonish: That time when the squad was punked, at an average of five and a half points in five...