This week's 10 things highlights a Los Angeles vengeance season, some cool uniforms, a Milwaukee Bucks super-sub, an unsung hero in Brooklyn, and much more.
1. Anthony Davis, blotting out everything on defense
Davis engaging destruction mode on offense -- culminating in 99 combined points in back-to-back games -- has rekindled hopes that the undersized, bricky, ill-fitting Los Angeles Lakers may have hope yet to make noise in the jumbled Western Conference.
Superstar talent can paper over structural flaws. The Lakers two-star model is valid only if Davis and LeBron James are true-blue superstars -- top-10 players.