SACRAMENTO -- The game hadn't even started yet and LeBron James could feel a throbbing headache come on which he could only surmise was from the smoke that had enveloped downtown Sacramento and the haze hovering inside the Golden 1 Center.
Smelling smoke in the arena during the team's morning shootaround, James wasn't sure how the conditions from the Camp Fire that originated about 90 minutes north of Sacramento would affect the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday.
But the Lakers of late have been a team that appears to be learning how to handle adversity.