Even though they were playing without LeBron James and Dennis Schroder, the Los Angeles Lakers came up with arguably their most impressive win of the 2020-21 season after defeating the Denver Nuggets on Monday night.
It was a slog of a game as both teams performed well on the defensive end of the floor, but it was the Lakers who managed to eke out more plays in the tightly contested showdown of two of the Western Conference’s best. One of the primary reasons why the Lakers ended up walking away with the win was because of their veterans off the bench, namely Wesley Matthews and Marc Gasol.