LA Lakers Lose NBA 2020-2021 Season Debut Against LA Clippers

Posted by: Kyeyune Andrew Jonathan in Basketball December 23, 2020

The reigning NBA champions of the 2019-2020 NBA season, the LA Lakers lost their season opener to the LA Clippers. This becomes the second successive year the Clippers have defeated the Lakers in their season-opening game.

Clippers’ Paul George scored 33 points overall with 26 of them coming through in the second half of the game. The first half didn’t go on so well for him but he came alive in the third and fourth quarters leading his team in scoring. Kawhi Leonard added 26 of his own points to the scoreboard as they went ahead to win the opening night game.

Before the game, the LA Lakers were presented with their NBA Championship Rings. The rings featured a mamba snake behind players’ numbers in honor of the late Kobe Bryant who died in a helicopter crash earlier this year. The top part of the rings is detachable revealing the retired Lakers’ jerseys – with Bryant’s number 8 and 24 jerseys highlighted in purple.

The Lakers failed to accompany ring night with a victory though as they never led the Clippers who had a 22 point lead in the first quarter.

In other news, Golden State Warriors terribly lost their season opener to the Brooklyn Nets against their former teammate, Kevin Durant. Durant scored 22 points on his Nets Debut as they won 125-99 against the former NBA champions.

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