Lakers trick Hornets into defending wrong basket
Mar 7, 2013, 4:46 PM
| Updated: 4:52 pm
Sometimes you just have to shake your head.
The Los Angeles Lakers, locked up in a close game with the New Orleans Hornets, scored a couple of points by tricking their opponent into defending the wrong basket.
The play happened with just more than 25 seconds remaining and the Lakers up by two, and it essentially sealed the game.
And, our opinion that the Hornets are not exactly the brightest team in the league.
After the game, New Orleans head coach Monty Williams was tricked by a reporter who asked if he knew the word ‘gullible’ wasn’t in the dictionary. “It’s not,” Williams asked.