LAS VEGAS — Twenty-four hours after going six rounds with Cleveland in a double-overtime battle, the Lakers simply didn’t have much left for another heavyweight fight.
The Lakers entered Tuesday’s Las Vegas Summer League championship game as the tournament’s No. 1 seed with a perfect 6-0 record. In the other corner was a second-seeded Portland squad that had also won all six of its games.
What promised to be a slugfest rematch of last summer’s title game instead turned into sparring. The Lakers could never get going on either side of the floor in a 91-73 loss that served as an unfitting ending to a dominant summer run.