The Los Angeles Lakers have a unique love affair with the best basketball in the world. The most successful franchise, along with the Boston Celtics, wrote another golden page, guided by LeBron James, to win the new NBA Tournament between the season.
Indeed, the popular Hollywood entity not only shares with the Celtics the record of 17 championship rings; Now she has become the first to be crowned monarch of the new competition that the NBA itself created to emulate European football sportingly and commercially.
Well, the T-Mobile in Las Vegas was the setting where the Lakers put the icing on the cake of an innovative competition in which they finished with seven wins in the same number of appearances, including the one on Saturday night when they ended up beating 123×109 to the Indiana Pacers in the summit game.
The Indianapolis team, with the best offense of the regular round, held out for almost three periods, led by Darvin Ham, who has two true luminaries of this sport in King James and Anthony Davis. In fact, the four-time MVP of the league finals did not need a superlative performance in this challenge (24 points and 11 rebounds), since “La Ceja” burst in with 41, 20 boards and four blocks, while Austin Reaves He emerged from the substitute bench to score 28 points.
«We were focused throughout the tournament. Everyone contributed as a team and each played their role perfectly. “We were a real team,” coach Ham told national television in the middle of the celebration.
Those in yellow and purple came out strong throughout the match, coupled with the fact that their defense suffocated those coached by Rick Carlise, especially from the end of the third quarter onwards, to secure the victory and the corresponding cup.
The numbers that made LeBron James MVP of the contest
Who has also been selected Most Valuable Player of the regular season on four occasions, achieved a new individual decoration by averaging 26.4 points per game with 7.9 rebounds, 7.6 assists and a remarkable 56.5% from the field and 60.1% in triple shots.
«I couldn’t let my rookies and my second-year players not have the experience of winning a championship. Many of them have not yet played in the playoffs and this was a way to help them prepare for the future,” LeBron James analyzed when receiving the trophy as MVP of the NBA Tournament.
2023-12-11 21:48:29
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