Westhead’s refusal to embrace Magic, flaws and all, creates a disconnect within the team … and an opening for Riley.
We are currently living in the player empowerment era in the NBA, where stars have the leverage to influence personnel decisions, get coaches hired or fired, and even themselves traded to another team while they’re still under contract.
And yet, Magic is not fully back. His first game whips up a level of hype that annoys his teammates, who have been winning without him, but there are immediate signs that not all is right in Laker-land. For one, Westhead burns through nearly the entire first quarter without putting Magic in the game, despite a sold-out crowd in the Forum wearing “The Magic is Back” t-shirts and chanting his name.
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