It’s the first look for Los Angeles Lakers fans this season at a duo that many know locally, as they face James Harden, Russell Westbrook, and the Houston Rockets in a Saturday night primetime ABC affair.
Although the Lakers are four games ahead of the Rockets in the standings, Saturday night is certainly a game that will carry an extra weight given that it’s the first game between the two teams this season.
The Rockets have two MVPs in Harden and Westbrook and while they’ve lost two games in a row to sub-.500 teams, the Lakers are currently in the same spot having lost their first game on Wednesday to a team with a losing record.
Rockets head coach Mike D’Antoni told reporters that he would try to match the size the Lakers have, but we will have to wait until game time to know for sure that he isn’t giving the Lakers coaching staff the okie-doke before a game on ABC.
Houston matching the Lakers size, whether D’Antoni said it or not, will have a lot to do with whether Davis is available for the Lakers. But knowing D’Antoni’s reputation as a gamer, it would be foolish to take his media comments as gospel.
