Call it superstition or call it style, but Los Angeles Lakers players they had only one thing in mind for their Las Vegas debut: continue to wear the black “City Edition” jerseys that had brought them there. LeBron James and co, in fact, this year they have never lost with the black shirts, winning all three matches played in the In-Season Tournament against Memphis, Utah and Phoenix and thus managed to snatch the ticket to the semifinal against the New Orleans Pelicans (tonight starting at 3.00 live on Sky Sport NBA and NOW with the original commentary, a repeat on Friday with commentary by Francesco Bonfardeci and Davide Pessina, while at 11pm live with commentary by Alessandro Mamoli and Mauro Bevacqua there is Milwaukee-Indiana). The NBA, however, said no: unless there is a last second change, the Lakers will have to wear their “Icon” jerseysthe classic gold-colored ones, while the Pelicans will have the white one called “Association”, therefore using clear and clearly distinguishable colors on the screen. The reason for the league’s refusal to the Lakers’ request, in fact, lies precisely in the visibility of the uniforms on the brand new pitch which will debut tonight in Las Vegastaking up the layouts already seen for all the matches of the tournament, therefore with the trophy drawn in the middle of the pitch and a long stripe (in this case red) from area to area to divide the parquet horizontally, leaving two blue bands on the right side and left of the playing field (or above and below when looking at them from the television). A decision that the Lakers’ locker room did not likewhere the decision was taken badly (“It’s bullshit” the comment told to ESPN anonymously) also because the last title in history, that of the 2020 bubble, arrived wearing the “Black Mamba” shirt in honor of Kobe Bryant, with whom the Lakers lost only one of the five games played. Small superstitious means that however serve to get to lift the trophy, even if the Pelicans are a very tough opponent and in great shape.
2023-12-07 20:49:30
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