The Los Angeles Lakers will play in what is ostensibly a regular-season basketball game between two NBA teams but is in reality anything but. When L.A. heads to Oklahoma City, what the team is really doing is getting second chance at showing 2018 free agent Paul George that his hometown basketball team is better than they showed when the two teams first met.
There was a ton of fanfare surrounding the Thunder’s first of two visits to Staples Center this season, but all it led to was a Lakers bloodbath at George and his teammates’ hands, with L.