The Los Angeles Lakers’ home opener against the Houston Rockets was supposed to be a marquee event, not just for Laker Nation but for the whole basketball world.
It was expected to be the home debut of the modern-day version of Showtime, starring Lebron James and friends, and hopefully a preview of things of come, i.e. a Lakers win, against an elite team like the Houston Rockets.
Instead, the purple and gold suffered a loss that was ugly in more ways than one. They lost 124-115 because they got outrebounded by 10, they kept throwing up bricks from downtown and they couldn’t stop James Harden from getting to the rim or the free throw line.