The Los Angeles Lakers are starting the 2018-19 NBA season on the road by taking on the Portland Trail Blazers. That LeBron James wouldn’t make his Lakers debut at home was a surprising revelation.
We dive into that on this episode of the Lakers Nation News Feed with Trevor Lane and Hannah Kulik. James’ debut is one of the major storylines to start the new NBA season, so it was surprising to not only see the Lakers playing their first game on the road, but also not participating in Opening Night.
In fact, the Lakers won’t take on the Blazers until the third night of NBA basketball, leaving fans waiting that much longer to see James play a regular-season game for his new team.