Today, the NBA regular season continues, with the Dallas Mavericks playing the Los Angeles Lakers at home. In this game, the Lakers were originally an undesirable side, because they had a number of players in the team who triggered the NBA's health and safety agreement and could not play the game.
Among them, Howard and Rondo have been banned from playing, and tucker, a young man who has recently shown great courage, has been diagnosed with illness and needs a long period of observation and treatment. As a result, the Lakers are suddenly very short of people, and the already unforgiving rotation lineup is even more stretched.
In desperation, james and Westbrook's playing time has increased to more than 42 minutes, and the trade for Westbrook will be temporarily put aside. In fact, this situation also gives the Lakers marginal people a chance to show their abilities.
As a role player, white shooter Austin Rivers is not familiar to fans as he is a lost draft and has earned less than $1 million a year this season. With a basic salary contract, Rivers waited hard for the opportunity to play, and finally saw the Lakers missing major generals today.
Coming off the bench for 32 minutes, Rivers played very well and seized his chances. All of his athletic shooting shots were outside the three-point line, and Rivers had 15 points and seven rebounds on 5-of-6 shooting. Most importantly, the Lone Rangers played overtime with the Lakers, and it was Rivers' three-point shot that helped the Lakers kill the Lone Rangers.
After the game, Rivers gave an exclusive interview to reporters, which was a good opportunity he had not been able to get before, and bluntly thanked his teammates and head coach Vogel. Lakers coach Vogel said that what needs to be thanked is that the scouting department found such a good shooter as Rivers.