LeBron James was in a mood to be petty after another monstrous performance from Anthony Davis over Davis’ former squad, the New Orleans Pelicans. While it seems almost silly now that the Los Angeles Lakers are a Western Conference-leading 28-7, it wasn’t an uncommon assessment that the Lakers gave up far too much for Anthony Davis. James took aim at those who suggested as such on the night that the Lakers played the players they gave up in the trade for Davis in Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram and Josh Hart.
While the former in Ingram and Ball had solid performances, it didn’t matter as the Lakers were head and shoulders above the Pelicans in large part because of Davis’ 46 points. After the game, LeBron made sure to point out how different Davis is and the price of the three players, as well as the future draft picks and pick swaps, was more than worth bringing in an MVP-level player in Davis.
The Lakers have looked excellent over the last few games and have driven up high leads over their last two games but have also let their opponents back in it as their bench has been unable to sustain the leads often created by James and Davis.
