The Lakers have some issues that go beyond X’s and O’s, Kobe Bryant’s health and D’Angelo Russell’s inexperience. Near the end of the Lakers’ 120-109 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Tuesday at Staples Center, Lakers coach Byron Scott said there was “a little bit of a verbal altercation” on the team’s bench.
“That’s good,” Scott said after practice on Wednesday at the Lakers’ facility in El Segundo. “They tell me that they care. I want to see more fight in our guys.”
If only the Lakers (0-4) showed that same fight on defense.