The Los Angeles Lakers have played great basketball for the past month and a half and completely changed their fortunes for the rest of the season. While much of that has to do with their outstanding play,

It's been talked about ad nauseam, albeit the point is overblown, that the NBA is losing momentum in the general cultural zeitgeist. Like every television

Does Los Angeles deserve all the credit for a thrilling NBA? Not quite. LeBron and Luka have been a show, but there's more at play here.

Kendrick Perkins is buying into the Lakers hype, and he went even further to say the they're changing the NBA.

Kendrick Perkins made a claim that Lakers forward LeBron James is currently the best player in the league, ahead of Nikola Jokic.

Their main star, Nikola Jokic, is averaging an astounding 28.9 points, 12.7 rebounds, and 10.4 assists per game, making him one of the most dominant players in the league. Yet the debate over who holds the title of the NBA's best player is a perennial topic among fans and analysts,

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While the Los Angeles Lakers have become a dominant team after trading for Luka Doncic, they're still a team with flaws. On Saturday night, those flaws were exposed as the Lakers faced off against the Boston Celtics.