There are teams that, due to their short history, are easier terrain to fertilize with unique limits and achievements. That doesn’t happen with Los Angeles Lakerswhich due to its long and triumphant history and the extraordinary list of players who have passed through the team, rates every record that is broken very highly. Saying that you are unique in the Lakers It is a thing of very few. From now on, also Deandre Ayton.
The Bahamian center, with some good recent performances that have generated confidence among the yellow fans, signed against the Sixers a perfect match: 14 points and 12 rebounds without having missed a single shot (7/7) and without committing a single turnover. Only four players before him had done so wearing the United States shirt. Lakers. The difference is that Ayton He is the first and only one to do so as a starter.
The other four players were Dwuight Howard, Tyson Chandler, Larry Nance Jr. y Kurt Rambisbut all four established similar statistical lines coming off the bench. So Ayton can boast of being unique in the history of Lakers.
This season, the center is averaging 15.3 points and 8.8 rebounds in a team in which he has to share the ball and the role with players like Luka Doncic, LeBron James o Austin Reaves. A Ayton He can be considered a star of this League, as number 1 in the Draft which was in 2018 by the Sunsbut his career in Phoenix left more shadows than lights. Now in the Lakers He is trying to direct his steps as the starter of a team that is a clear candidate for the title.
