The NBA wanted to mark the occasion with its first game of the preseason, between the two most anticipated teams of the next campaign: the Lakers and the Nets. A match broadcast at 9:30 p.m. Sunday on beIN Sports.
Unfortunately, this meeting at Staples Center will have much less interest than hoped by the league. Frank Vogel had already announced that LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Russell Westbrook and Trevor Ariza would be absent for the duel, and Steve Nash also confided that there would be a lot of absent on the Brooklyn side.
Their names ? Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Joe Harris, Patty Mills, Blake Griffin and James Johnson.
