The second quarter turns into a Murray Flurry — Jamal scored 10 of his 14 points in the quarter. Porter Jr. also has 14, and DeAndre Jordan grabbed seven rebounds in seven minutes. #Nuggets 59, #Lakers 49, halftime. #NBA@nba
My friendly reminder — if you can’t tell within two minutes if you should overturn a call, there isn’t clear evidence to overturn the call. #Warriors#Lakers#NBA@nba
LeBron is the either #1 or #2 in terms of greatest bball players ever.
He's also the biggest cry baby in-game I've ever seen. The number of times tonight that he held his hands up looking at the refs, looking for a foul, is shameful. Add in that apparently he forgets that travelling is against the rules. Refs seem to forget that too.
Good win for the #Nuggets in a playoff-like game. Defense locked down the win in the fourth quarter — another notch for #Denver in the clutch defense category. Now for the numbers:
Porter Jr.: 30 points, 11 rebounds;
Joker: Missed out on his fifth straight triple-double, but he still posted 18-11-7;
Gordon: 16 points, nine rebounds;
Caldwell-Pope: 18 points.
Next up: At the #Lakers on Saturday. 🤞for Murray’s ankle. #NBA@nba
i still cannot believe Steven A, Kendrick Perkins and what's his name have careers as sports commentators.
what is it with annoying men failing upwards.
btw: Kendrik Perkins reminds of my Tití's boyfriend. he was like a Puerto Rican fun-sized Barry White. i can still smell the jerry curl and goldbond powder.
So it’s the #Lakers against the #Nuggets in the first round. We’ve got to beat four good teams to repeat; might as well start against an all-time great like Lebron. #NBA@nba
Tie game late in the fourth? The #Nuggets went on a 10-0 run to nail down the win, 114-106. The Nuggets now have the best record in the Western Conference again.
🇺🇸 US: "The Los Angeles Lakers have listed superstar LeBron James as questionable against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night due to a non-COVID illness."🤦♂️
rememeber that time Doris Burke actually read names out of a phone book? her voice is so dreamy and soothing. still can't believe she used to be a coach.
Professional win for the #Nuggets, 112-103, with a 23-2 run wrapped around the end of the third and beginning of the fourth quarters.
On offense, Joker led the way with 29 points, eight boards and seven assists. Murray added 21 points and 10 assists; six Nuggets finished in double figures.
I have #FS1 on mute today on my #TV in my room and it's funny that the #Lakers beat the #Pelicans 133-89 and the chryons are ablaze with #Lebron's stats, about how he scored 30 points in the game...completely ignoring that without him on the court they still would have won 103-89.
I don't know much about the state of the #NBA today, but this says to me that either the #Pelicans are bad, or the #Lakers as a team are so good that they didn't really need #Lebron in order to win here.
Some quick infrastructure reboot downtime thoughts on the four California #nba teams after they paired up for a couple of really enjoyable early season games last night, starting with the winners:
The #Lakers are in the same place they were at the end of last year: very good, but unless AD suddenly starts playing consistently on the offensive end, one significant player away from the top tier teams. They missed a bunch of their role players last night, but they won't move the playoff needle.🧵
[Charania] RFA Austin Reaves has agreed to return to the Los Angeles Lakers on a four-year, $56 million Early Bird maximum contract, sources tell @TheAthletic. (twitter.com)
Agents Aaron Reilly and Reggie Berry of AMR Agency negotiated the new deal to keep Reaves in L.A. long term.
[Wojnarowski] Free agent G D’Angelo Russell has agreed on a two-year, $37 million contract to stay with the Los Angeles Lakers, co-heads of @CAA_Basketball Austin Brown and Aaron Mintz along with Antonio Russell tell ESPN. (twitter.com)
Deal has player option. Lakers secure their starting point guard.