On April 9, Beijing time, the Lakers' internal discord was exposed, and Brad Turner, a Lakers reporter with the Los Angeles Times, wrote: The biggest failure, the most disappointing season in the history of the Lakers; the reporter broke the news that the team had problems in the training camp, revealing that Wei Shao did not respect Vogel and disobeyed the coach's arrangement in the training camp
During the training camp, the Lakers had some problems, and the members of the team saw what they were most worried about before the official game began — in the training camp, when Vogel said that whoever got the rebound would be able to bring the ball to the front court, and Westbrook said: No, I'm a point guard, give me the ball, and the others run.
Vogel denied Westbrook's opinion and said james, thick eyebrows, Tucker, Munch and Reeves could all dribble the ball up front; Westbrook said again: No, I'm a point guard, give me that damn team, everyone give way.
"From that moment on, at training camp, it was all over, because now Russ is like a fish out of water. He didn't know what to do. That's how things started. A Lakers employee who understands the situation said.
After joining the Lakers, Wei Shao's performance on the court was very bad, often shooting three non-stick and extremely outrageous board shots, the Lakers once put pressure on Wei Shao to play as a substitute, but Vogel insisted on letting him start; this season, Wei Shao played a total of 78 games for the Lakers, averaging 18.5 points, 7.4 rebounds and 7.1 assists in 34.3 minutes per game, and was abandoned at key moments due to poor form many times.
Previously, the famous ramona Shelburne also wrote an article exposing some discord within the Lakers, some teammates were dissatisfied with their position and used Wei Shao's unfavorable remarks to deliberately incite the wind, and there were not only people inside the Lakers who suspected that Wei Shao's hands or eyes were problematic, but even wanted to use humiliating methods to force Wei Shao to change himself.
A Lakers source said: There are also some people in the Lakers locker room who are so dissatisfied with their position that they will find a way to incite the fire every time it is unfavorable to Westbrook; [they] tell Westbrook, 'The coach hates you, or the management is trying to get rid of you.'" They say a lot of things like that, to make an enemy for Wei Shao.
Ramona Shelburne also revealed that Westbrook has been in a dark corner this season and he doesn't know who to believe, and said Westbrook is worried about buying out the contract with the Lakers to bring notoriety to $47.06 million a year next season and has player options.
This season's Lakers Big Three season ended in failure, James, Thick Brow and Westbrook Triumvirate played a total of 21 games together, the record is 11 wins and 10 losses, in the 393 minutes of the Big Three together, the Lakers net efficiency is -3.5, offensive efficiency is 107.1, the league's penultimate fourth, only better than the Pistons, Thunder and Magic.