Avery Bradley may not have been with the Lakers when they won the 2020 championship, but he was unmistakably a part of the identity and culture they forged that carried them forward into the NBA bubble.
The team’s ascent towards one of the top defenses in the NBA began that season with Bradley setting the tone with his contagious effort as a voracious point-of-attack defender. When he got hurt and was forced to miss time, the team established “The Avery Challenge,” a goal to stop teams at a rate equaling or surpassing the No.