BREAKING; LeBron James Point Of Payment Reduction 

LeBron James did not seem to have any interest in listening to what head coach Darvin Ham had to say during a timeout.

The relationship between LeBron James and Los Angeles Lakers head coach Darvin Ham is once again in the spotlight. In the fourth quarter of Tuesday’s game against the Golden State Warriors, James could be seen paying little to no attention to what Ham had to say during a timeout.

While Austin Reaves at least appeared to be paying some attention, LeBron really didn’t seem to have any interest in seeing what play Ham was drawing up. It could have been because the game itself was all but over at that point, with the Warriors leading 127-110 with under three minutes remaining.

The Lakers would go on to lose 134-120, and while there were plenty of reasons for that, Ham’s decision-making perhaps played the biggest role in this defeat. The Warriors were only up 90-84 with under four minutes left in the third quarter when he put out a lineup that hadn’t played a minute together prior to that.

With Spencer Dinwiddie, D’Angelo Russell, Gabe Vincent, Taurean Prince, and Jaxson Hayes on the court together for the first time, the Lakers gave up a 16-3 run to close out the quarter. That all but ended the game and you wonder why Ham put out this new lineup at such a critical stage in such a big game.

LeBron himself might have been frustrated by his head coach making a mistake like that. He did his part in the game, as the 39-year-old finished with 33 points, 7 rebounds, 11 assists, and 2 steals, but it wasn’t enough to prevent LA from dropping to 45-35 on the season.

Thanks to this loss, the Lakers are now almost certainly going to end up as the ninth or tenth seed in the Western Conference. That would mean they’ll have to win two elimination games in the NBA Play-In Tournament to even make the playoffs, which is far from ideal.

If the Lakers do get eliminated in the tournament, it’s hard to see how Ham keeps his job. If he had the full support of his superstars, you would have liked his chances, but it seems clear that he and LeBron aren’t on the same page a lot of times