Lakers bettors suffer a cruel bad beat after Pacers come back from down 17 to win at the buzzer

The Lakers or the bettors — who is hurting more?

What an incredibly bad start to the week for Los Angeles Lakers fans everywhere. What an even worse Monday night for bettors.

During the Lakers’ home matchup against the Indiana Pacers, L.A. took a 17-point lead during the fourth quarter and seemed on its way to win No. 6 in the past seven games.

Then things took a drastic turn.

The Pacers would close the final 9:30 of the game on a 32-14 run, as the Lakers missed 14 of their final 19 shot attempts.

Yes, you read that correct. The Lakers made just five field goals in 19 tries during crunch time.

But the final blow to L.A. came on the defensive end following LeBron James’ go-ahead bucket with 20.9 seconds remaining—which gave the home team its final lead of the game 115-113.

Here’s what happened next:

Down go the Lakers and down go the many bettors who had the Lakers to cover (-3.5) or to win outright with a moneyline bet.

What an epic collapse.

The Lakers move to 7-12 on the season (13th in West standings) and the Pacers go to 12-8 (4th in East standings).

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