In just five days, the Los Angeles Lakers will take to the court for their first organized basketball game since March 10, though I suppose it would be more accurate to say their first organized basketball game against another team because they finally had a dispute on Saturday. .
Unlike the scrimmages the Lakers will play before the season begins on July 30, Saturday’s scrimmage was not televised on Spectrum SportsNet, but we did get some snippets of the scrimmage thanks to the NBA’s official YouTube account. The video also includes clips of players performing shooting exercises.
The first thing that stands out are the units that Vogel used in scrimmage. While Kentavious Caldwell-Pope’s five initials, Danny Green, LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and JaVale McGee were not surprising, the three-guard bench unit with Quinn Cook, Alex Caruso, Dion Waiters, Kyle Kuzma, and Dwight Howard did. it was. He was also surprised to see Talen Horton-Tucker playing around with that unit for a while.
The second unit will almost certainly look different once Markieff Morris joins the Lakers in Orlando, and Vogel rarely has a floor lineup without one from James or Davis, but it’s still something to watch out for, especially since Vogel has said that James and Davis are unlikely to play all three practice games.
This is what happened in the bubble on Saturday.
Lebron James How old are you?
At the start of next season, LeBron James will be 36 years old. With the exception of Andre Iguodala, not in the NBA who is over 35 does he look like James, and even then James is on a completely different level than Iggy.
I mean, look at this nonsense.
As much as I think I’d like to play in an NBA game, I’m pretty sure a 35-year-old jab from James would keep me on the sidelines for the rest of the season. Not even because of an injury; just out of fear.
Mambacita forever
Chicago Sky guard and Reno / Sparks legend Gabby Williams paid tribute to the late Gianna Bryant on the team’s media day on Saturday with a drawing of Gigi in her left shoe. Expect a flurry of tributes similar to Bryant this season, and for the foreseeable future.
Mambacita forever.
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