Last night, when my buddy Robert Flom of 213 Hoops was the latest person to wonder aloud if Anthony Davis was really so opposed to playing center for the Lakers that he wouldn’t do so against the Rockets, I made a prediction publicly that I’d been making privately for a while: That at some point during this series, we would get a leak that Davis was now totally happy to play the 5.
Lo and behold, that’s exactly what happened less than 12 hours later, as Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports — who is as plugged in to the thought process of Klutch Sports clients as any reporter — has written that Davis was willing to play the five more against Houston, if asked:
Lakers star Anthony Davis is not fond of playing center, but he wouldn’t be going up against a traditional big in this matchup.