ESPN's Kendrick Perkins called out the Los Angeles Lakers after Thursday night's blowout loss to the Charlotte Hornets. The Lakers fell 135-117 to the Hornets, who shot 20/43 (47%) from three. LA only had nine bench points and struggled to stop Charlotte's LaMelo Ball, who scored 30 points in his hometown.

The Brooklyn Nets (13-35) will look to Michael Porter Jr. (12th in NBA, 25.6 points per game) when they try to knock off Luka Doncic (first in league, 33.6) and the Los Angeles Lakers (29-19) on Tuesday,

The Nets got beaten 125-109 by James and his Lakers before a crowd of 18,248. And it wasn’t as close as the score would indicate.

LeBron James scored 25 points, Luka Doncic had 24 and the Los Angeles Lakers rolled to a 125-109 victory over the Brooklyn Nets in Austin Reaves’ first game since Christmas