Was the NBA going to risk not scheduling LeBron James the Lakers for Christmas Day 2022? Of course not, because when you live at the same time as such a legend, you simply benefit from it as long as it is there.
I love LeBron James on Christmas Day, in two or three years there will be morewould have declared Jean-Claude Van Damme last week in the spans of an NBA room.
True or not, you get the idea.
Any basketball game in which LeBron James plays is an event. The fact that he has been playing for five years for one of the most legendary franchises in the history of sport adds a bit of hype to the thing, and the idea of seeing him play tonight against one of those who best symbolizes the next generation, the new generation, should be enough to make you bend and make you rush in front of your TV tonight.
8:30 p.m. for this Dallas Mavericks vs Los Angeles Lakers, absolutely perfect schedule, since you know very well what the TV program has in store for you tonight if you were tempted to skip it. Reichmann on TF1, Ice Age, Mom, I missed the plane, Santa Claus is garbage, we love it, but we know it by heart, while at the same time, very clever whoever can predict what it will happen tonight on the side of Dallas.
Luka Doncic just put 50 on the Rockets, LeBron needs to reassure Lakers fans following news of Anthony Davis’ potential long unavailability, and if Josh Green and Dorian Finney-Smith will be missing on the Mavs side, these are two teams with few absentees who will face each other tonight. Russell Westbrook will face Christian Wood for the battle of the benches, both teams have – icing on the log – badly needed wins to get started this season (in December, exactly), and so everything is in place to see a real basketball game, run by two phenomenal conductors but not that, even though collectively the Mavs seem a cut above the Lakers, like any five-man basketball team on this Earth.
Between 8:30 p.m., go 8:40 p.m. because space costs an arm, and if all goes well the first cupcakes will already be well devoured, hoping to avoid indigestion two hours later.