LOS ANGELES — Wearing an easy smile and sounding relieved, Anthony Davis held up his Los Angeles Lakers jersey as dozens of cameras clicked away.
His formal introduction at the Lakers’ practice facility in El Segundo, California, on Saturday marked the end of a costly monthslong courtship and the dawn of a promising partnership with LeBron James. Yet the splashy photo op, where more than 100 media members watched Davis show off his new No. 3 jersey, was another reminder that nothing about his journey to Los Angeles has been easy.