It’s another battle of the 2003 Draft Class as LeBron James visits his old buddy Carmelo Anthony in Portland as the Lakers play a road game against the Trail Blazers in the second slot of the weekly Friday ESPN Doubleheader.
The Los Angeles Lakers are experiencing the most euphoric high that just keeps elevating the more they make eye-opening statements across the league, dominating and leaving waste to anyone that stands in their way. With the Bucks, they still possess the best record in the NBA (19-3) and are absolutely looking the part of the most mammoth team in the West to go up against at the moment.
I guess adding LeBron and AD to a team mixed with veterans and youth boded well, after all.
Winning has become a regulatory thing for these Lakers, and as of the moment, they’re looking like the ultimate aggressor. What’s been rather sluggish, however, is last year’s Western Conference Finals-visiting Portland Trail Blazers and their abhorrently peculiar 9-13 record. Of course, injury to their core awash with forwards has been the most plaguing demerit, but you add in the inconsistency of the Blazers’ backcourt of McCollum and Lillard and you get a team that’s identity is yet to be discovered. It’s only December and we’re only a month in, but these Blazers can figure it out, or so Terry Stotts can hope.
Tonight’s matchup features a bunch of high-energy scorers on both sides of the floor, and during this one, besides LeBron and Melo dueling with one another all night, the continuous emergence of Anthony Davis’ potential as this year’s standout MVP candidate will probably be shown even more tonight as he goes against a team that’s dangerously anemic at the Center spot.
Davis hasn’t taken any sort of backseat to his new point guard in LeBron James, a 3-time champ and 3-time MVP himself that is also gunning for that MVP spot as he’s also leading the league in assists (10.8) in his 17th year. No big deal. Davis’ fit has been seamless, averaging 26 ppg. off 49 percent shooting and has been instrumental in navigating the Lakers to the top spot in the East.
Tonight’s game will be broadcasted at 10:30 p.m., EST on ESPN.
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