Lakers fans are blaming team’s latest struggles on the Vivian Flores catfishing fiasco

Is this really a thing?

It’s been two weeks since NBA Twitter lost its minds over what could be a catfishing fiasco involving a Los Angeles Lakers fan and podcaster named Vivian Flores, who went missing … but who might be made up? (Our Mike Sykes had a really good explainer that breaks it all down.)

Since then, the Lakers — who could be heading toward the play-in games, which would make LeBron James unhappy — have struggled, winning just one game (over the Orlando Magic) in their past seven games.

Is there a Vivian Flores Curse? That’s what fans seem to be saying on Twitter. Here’s a roundup:

Curse or not, this isn’t great.

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