The 75th season of the NBA kicked off in the night. There was expectation for the return to the field of the Los Angeles Lakers who, however, lost at home to the Golden State Warriors: 114-121 the final result. Led by Steph Curry’s triple double, Jordan Poole’s 20 points and three double-digit players from the bench (Damion Lee and Nemanja Bjelica 15, Andre Iguodala 12), Golden State wins at the Lakers with a great last quarter. The 67 points of the James-Davis duo are not enough for the hosts, terrible debut for Russell Westbrook very inaccurate shooting
Meanwhile, it is official that the Lakers have brought back another player, who has already passed through Los Angeles in recent years, and useful in the season that then led the yellow-purple to conquer the 2020 NBA title in the Orlando bubble: Avery Bradley, cut by the Warriors at the end of the preseason, he was signed by the Lakers who extended the rotation and the battery of veterans available to coach Frank Vogel.
OFFICIAL: Welcome back to the Purple & Gold, Avery ???? pic.twitter.com/wo1VGWFAyT
– Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) October 18, 2021
An unsecured agreement that well tells the yellow-violet’s need to find alternatives on the perimeter (in defense and not only) to the absences of the injured Trevor Ariza and Talen Horton-Tucker. In the 2019-20 season, Bradley closed with an average of almost nine points in the 49 regular season games played, before the forced suspension due to Covid, then refusing for family reasons to join the rest of the team in the Orlando bubble, receiving the decisive success immediately afterwards. against Miami the phone call and the embrace of the entire Lakers locker room.
Bradley thus becomes the sixth player who in this off-season returns to wear the yellow-purple jersey after Ariza, Howard, Rondo, Ellington and Bazemore.