The current iteration of the Cleveland Cavaliers is not the same juggernaut LeBron James has led in season’s past, but a win against them can be considered a nice feather in the cap for the Los Angeles Lakers. Unless you’re Kyle Kuzma.
“They didn’t really have their players,” he said at Monday’s practice. “They played their two-way guys, Zizic, so I wouldn’t really put too much stock into it. If they had Rodney Hood, Tristan and K-Love, it might have been a different story.”
While Kuzma is correct in highlighting the players the Cavaliers didn’t have available, the Lakers themselves were without Josh Hart and Brandon Ingram.