The way Los Angeles Lakers rookie Andre Ingram started his NBA career with a 19-point game against the Houston Rockets was the type of sports story so empathy-inducing that it would be rejected as too unrealistic if pitched to a movie studio.
At 32 years old and in his first taste of NBA action, Ingram hit four threes on five attempts, a long-distance record for a Laker in their first game with the league’s most successful franchise.
The whole night was like something out of a sports movie, and was even able to catch the eye of future Hall-of-Famer and Lakers legend Kobe Bryant.