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Lakers Training Camp: LeBron James Soaks In First Practice That Highlighted Defense, Competitive Spirit

The Los Angeles Lakers opened training camp at UCLA Health Training Center on Tuesday morning with a practice that included plenty of physicality and concluded with a heated three-point competition.

It saw Michael Beasley, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, JaVale McGee and Rajon Rondo take down a team of superior shooters in Brandon Ingram, LeBron James, Kyle Kuzma and Lance Stephenson. “It’s all about competition,” James said following his first official practice with the Lakers.

“At the end it was just a shooting competition, getting the competitive juices flowing again, which is always a great thing.”

The Lakers finished their morning session, the first of two practices scheduled for the day, with basketballs in their hand, but the day did not begin that way.