LeBron James takes a shot at the officiating after the Lakers’ Game 2 loss

Lebron James wasn’t just mad the Lakers blew a 20-point lead and lost Game 2 to the Nuggets on Monday — he was also mad at the referees.

For the Los Angeles Lakers, the Denver Nuggets are that schoolyard bully who keeps beating them up and stealing their lunch money every day.

They lost to the Nuggets for the 10th time in a row on Monday in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series, 101-99. Of those 10 losses, this was the worst. They held a 20-point lead in the third quarter, only to give up that lead in big gulps. Their fan base could see a loss coming with plenty of time left.

While Los Angeles did it to itself, LeBron James, who had a solid game overall, felt something was wrong with the officiating and that the officiating was a factor in his team’s loss. After the game, he took a shot at the refs and the replay center the NBA utilizes in New Jersey.

“I don’t understand what’s going on in the replay center, to be honest. … D’Lo (D’Angelo Russell) clearly gets hit in the face on a drive. What the (expletive) do we have a replay center? It doesn’t make sense to me. It bothers me.”

The play he was referring to took place late in the third quarter. Russell missed a layup, and after Michael Porter Jr. was called for a foul, Denver challenged the call, and the call was overturned.

Russell even took to social media to give his opinion.

Despite a couple of possibly bad or questionable calls or non-calls, the Lakers have only themselves to blame for being down 2-0 to the Nuggets. At this point, this series has taken on the feel of a slow-motion train wreck.