Bobcats Have a Hold on Lakers

After a promising 4-0 start on their longest trip of the season, the Lakers again failed to beat the Charlotte Bobcats in a 94-84 loss Tuesday at Time Warner Cable Arena. The Lakers (58-16) are 12 days into their 13-day trip and were simply unable to keep up with the NBA’s second-lowest scoring offense. L.A.’s biggest competition, Cleveland (61-13) won its 13th consecutive game and moved three games ahead of the Laker’s for the NBA’s top record. Both the Lakers and the Cavaliers each have 8 regular-season games left.

Lakers’ Coach Phil Jackson told the L.A. Times, “We said we’d push on to 60 [victories]. Are we there yet? Not quite. So we’ll probably push on to 60, is what we’ll do. I think that feels to me like the right thing to do.” The Lakers offered no explanation as to why the Bobcats (34-40) have won six of the last seven games between the two teams.

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