SACRAMENTO — The test was obvious the minute the Lakers got their schedule for the 2024-25 season.
They would make one trip to Sacramento to face the Kings twice, two games against a team whose pace and physicality have been the difference in multiple years of dominance against over the Lakers.
If, somehow, the Lakers were able to beat the Kings in their first meeting at the Golden 1 Center, they’d need to try and do it again a day and a half later.
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Through the first few months of the schedule, the Lakers had seemingly exorcised their Kings demons.