LA Lakers heating up the Preseason

It came in a preseason game. But as LeBron James sent an arcing shot high into the Las Vegas air on Wednesday night, Los Angeles Lakers fans were left fervently hoping that it was a sign of things to come.

With time running out in the first half of the Lakers’ meeting with the Golden State Warriors at T-Mobile Arena, James produced a “moment,” the kind of thing that only the greats manage to make look easy.

These games count for nothing after all. There was no time left to make a move to the basket and all thoughts, understandably, seemed to turn to the locker room. Lakers teammate Brandon Ingram stopped moving. Thompson backed off, his arms at his sides.

New colleague Kentavious Caldwell-Pope embraced him immediately. Lance Stephenson came in for a joyous hand slap and James responded with a wry smile that seemed to say: “there’s more where that came from.”

Lakerland certainly hopes so.

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