LOS ANGELES – LeBron James remains a “championship pillar” of the Los Angeles Lakers and the NBA club will pour all it can into making sure he and Anthony Davis are at full strength next season, general manager Rob Pelinka said Friday.
The Phoenix Suns ended the Lakers’ NBA title defense in emphatic style on Thursday, leading wire-to-wire in a 113-100 victory to win their best-of-seven Western Conference first-round series in six games.
It marked the first time in 15 playoff appearances that James — a four-time NBA champion — was eliminated in the first round.
Inevitably the series defeat, on the heels of a regular season in which James and Davis both b…
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