On Tuesday evening, the Los Angeles Lakers will open their Western Conference semifinal series against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Once again, they will be big underdogs, just as they were in the first round of the playoffs against the Houston Rockets, and they will have to go to war without Luka Doncic, who is still nursing a hamstring strain.
The experts at the NBA Wires sites on the USA Today network gave their predictions for how this series will go. Not a single one of them picked the Lakers, which is an indication of how much work the Purple and Gold
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