Kentavious Caldwell-Pope almost didn’t warm up before the Los Angeles Lakers took on the Milwaukee Bucks.
Earlier in the week, Caldwell-Pope had trained with his shooting coach for the first time in three months, and felt the results nearly instantaneously, evidently to the point that he was bragging to former Detroit Pistons and current Lakers teammate Reggie Bullock about how he “was feeling different” and knew his shots were going to go in.
Caldwell-Pope was so confident, in fact, that he wasn’t sure he needed to go shoot around before the game.