I don’t have many hard and fast rules, but this is one of them: Whenever one of my favorite ex-Spurs completely outplays Russell Westbrook in a nationally televised Christmas Day game, I write about it. I do this even though we don’t spend much time at Pounding the Rock writing about non-Spurs games — at least, not until the NBA Finals.
Last night’s Lakers - Nets game felt like a culmination of several of my recent pieces. First, in my preseason piece ranking teams in terms of likability, I said this about the Lakers:
“The Lakers have brought in several knuckleheads and a bunch of minimum contract old guys to surround LeBron James and Frequently Injured Anthony Davis.