In Scoring The First Bucket Of Last Night's Pelicans' Game, Anthony Davis Put...The Lakers Up By 2?

Anthony Davis is already scoring points for the Lakers before even being traded pic.twitter.com/QfwmOJGJhP

— Someone's An Idiot (@SomeonesAnIdiot) February 28, 2019

Anthony Davis hit the first bucket of the game.

Scoreboard gave the points to the Lakers. pic.twitter.com/wgU8QpbnwE

— Andrew Lopez (@_Andrew_Lopez) February 28, 2019

The Lakers' organization doesn't strike me as the type to appreciate self-deprecating humor. Taking an objective look in the mirror and having a laugh at themselves would require them to remove their collective head from their collective ass. I could be wrong, but I have a feeling that's not something the most self-importantly run franchise in sports is prepared to do with how poorly they've worn the embarrassment of the Anthony Davis debacle. 

​Therefore, the most reasonable explanation was that this scoreboard snafu at Staples Center was an innocent mistake. Unfortunately, it was an innocent mistake that is so rarely, if ever, made that I have no choice but to believe that it was the result of the technological equivalent of a Freudian slip. An innocent mistake the likes of a man blurting out the name of his former mistress while sleeping with his wife, but worse considering AD and LA were never actually "a thing".

I don't want to treat this as more than it is, since it was presumably just one person pressing the wrong button. However, I'll be damned if that one person immediately associating the name Anthony Davis with purple and gold isn't hilariously emblematic of the struggles a once proud franchise has had in getting over a player that was never actually on their roster. Don't let LeBron making a shot that few could to squeak out a win over a Pelicans' team that sat their superstar during the 4th quarter fool you. The effects of the trade that never was are still, rather pathetically, being felt throughout a Lakers' organization that appears primed to be seated at home for the postseason, apparently even amongst its most anonymous employees.