Healthy and happy: LeBron James, Anthony Davis lead Lakers back to conference finals

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James and Davis were at their best while the Lakers eliminated the defending champion Golden State Warriors in six games, capping a masterful effort with a 122-101 victory Friday night.
When asked why the seventh-seeded Lakers find themselves four games from the NBA Finals just three months after they were six games below .500 and in 13th place in the Western Conference, James praised the front office for overhauling the roster around the trade deadline with the arrivals of D'Angelo Russell, Rui Hachimura and Jarred Vanderbilt.
"One of the things I wanted to reestablish here was our competitiveness, and then work toward building a team, a roster of players that were together and that weren't afraid to acknowledge what we're doing wrong and how we can fix it," Ham said.
"It started with themselves, how can we all be better individually, and then come together as a group, and I think just throughout the season, the work ethic of LeBron, the persistence of AD, both of those guys."