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LET ME JUST START BY SAYING, Game 6 of Suns-Lakers was one weird-ass game. Before the game, came the news that Anthony Davis would start. Makes sense. Elimination game. Might as well throw everything you have at it. And within seconds of the start of the game, it was clear that wasn’t happening. Clear that as much I respect the guy for giving it a go, he had no business being out there.
You simply cannot play on a busted groin and a hyperextended knee, again, credit for trying but there was no way that was going to work.
Dec 22, 2020
The Lakers enter the 2020-21 NBA season as the reigning champs but can anyone challenge them for the crown? The Crossover staff made their NBA Finals predictions.
Howard Beck: Lakers over Bucks
I’d love to get adventurous here. I really would. Nuggets-Heat! Blazers-Sixers! Clippers-Nets! But if the Lakers are healthy, I just don’t see any team derailing them. Certainly not in the West. The Clippers? Their funky chemistry and summer flop makes it hard to buy into them again. The Nuggets/Blazers/Jazz? Who among them can stifle LeBron
and corral Anthony Davis? The Lakers did the near-impossible over the last two months – they won the title, then got even better, adding Dennis Schroder, Wes Mathews Jr. and Marc Gasol and Montrezl Harrell. They’re in their own tier. The East should be a dogfight, though. The Heat, Bucks, Nets, Celtics and Sixers can each make a plausible case. I wouldn’t be surprised to see any of them in the Finals. I’m going with the Bucks