The Los Angeles Lakers begin their postseason this Saturday against the Denver Nuggets, reigning NBA champions.
The Los Angeles team will have the opportunity to get revenge against Nikola Jokic and his team after being eliminated in the conference finals last season.
For LeBron James and Anthony Davis it will be a litmus test if they aspire to reach another NBA final.
It’s not just that they were swept 4-0 in the West final last year. Furthermore, in this regular season, the three times they have faced each other have also ended in victory for Jokic and company. The Lakers have not won a game against the Nuggets since December 2022.
Historically, the Lakers have been superior to the Denver Nuggets in the playoffs. Since their first meeting in 1979, the LA team has a record of 25 wins out of 12 losses against Denver.
At what time and when will the Lakers vs. Nuggets?
The series will begin this Saturday at 5:30 pm Los Angeles time at the Ball Arena in Denver.
The second game will be on Monday, April 22 at 7:00 pm Los Angeles time.
The first game in the Crypto.com Arena will be on Thursday, April 25 at 7:00 pm. Then they repeat in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 27 at 5:30 pm.
Game five would be at Ball Arena, if necessary. A sixth game would return to Los Angeles and if a seventh game was needed it would be in Denver.
Pelicans snatch the last spot in the Playoffs from Sacramento
The New Orleans Pelicans overcame Zion Williamson’s injury this Friday in the play-in, beat the Sacramento Kings 105-98 and will face the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round of the playoff.
Without his main reference on the court, a Zion who was injured on Tuesday against the Los Angeles Lakersthe Pelicans showed character and determination to win the last ticket to the West’s playoff.
Instead, the Kings, weighed down by the losses of Malik Monk and Kevin Huerter, closed a disappointing season after having been one of the revelations of the NBA last year.
Everything indicates that this was the last meeting with Sacramento for Spanish Jordi Fernández, assistant coach of the Kings and who, in the absence of an official announcement, will be the new head coach of the Brooklyn Nets.
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