Coming off a loss to the defending champion Toronto Raptors, the Los Angeles Lakers managed to bounce back against an upstart Phoenix Suns team.
The Suns are one of the hottest shooting teams in the league and it was easy to see why against the Lakers as they were able to get good looks from beyond the arc and knock them down with regularity. However, Los Angeles was able to use their clear size advantage to score at will in the paint and crash the boards for second-chance opportunities.
The game also served as the 2019-20 NBA season debut for Rajon Rondo who had been nursing a calf injury that forced him to sit the first nine games.