The Lakers absolutely stink right now, man. They’ve lost five games in a row and are looking like they’ll miss the playoffs completely. Yes, that includes the play-in.
Yet, still, media outlets everywhere find ways to talk about them even in their losses. That doesn’t exclude us here, by the way. We all talk about the Lakers way too much. Everyone knows it.
But the Pelicans? They’ve had quite enough Lakers talk from everyone. But, more specifically, from ESPN.
So much so that, after they beat the Lakers with LeBron James and Anthony Davis playing, they changed their Twitter bio to this on Friday night.
EL. OH. EL. That’s actually pretty funny. What an awesome troll. But there’s absolutely no way ESPN would overlook the actual scoreboard and…wait…WAIT.
We updated our bio even before this tweet https://t.co/1orVuQffFj
— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) April 2, 2022
WOWWWW LOLOLOLOLOL.
Now, to be fair to ESPN, the Sportscenter account did actually tweet about the Pelicans after their win.
C.J. McCollum and Brandon Ingram combine for 61 points to spoil LeBron and AD's return 😤
Pelicans get the 3-0 season sweep vs. the Lakers. pic.twitter.com/Bg3EPd4K9F
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) April 2, 2022
I can still totally understand where the team is coming from with this, though. Nobody wants to hear about LeBron’s numbers when the Lakers just lost their 5th straight game. Not even LeBron, probably.
Regardless, this was a pretty excellent troll from the Pelicans’ Twitter account. Just A1. Fans loved it.