Los Angeles Lakers @ 2.27 vs Philadelphia 76ers
The Los Angeles Lakers (19-23) will host the Philadelphia 76ers (26-16) tonight at Crypto.com Arena. The 76ers is the heavy favorite but the Lakers seems to play extra hard at home.
Lakers key injuries: Patrick Beverly (illness) out, Anthony Davis (foot) out, Lebron James (ankle) probable, Austin Reaves (hamstring) out, Lonnie Walker IV (knee) out
Extra brave of you to bet on Lakers even though they have a lot of players out due to injury or illness. Well, that's still a jam-packed Lakers at home, and you still have Westbrook and Schroder to carry out the shooting from downtown. Sixers are relatively healthy too, though they are kinda struggling when they're away but still.. you cannot disregard their firepower if they can't mount up the defense inside.
Tailing this Lakers pick with only a low amount. Still quite unsure about the Lakers pulling through but it's an odd that can't be missed.
It was a close game but somehow, I already expected that the 76ers are the ones who will own the game and not the the home team which is the Lakers. I'm also confused why coach Ham isn't giving Thomas Bryant enough minutes to have more experience while Davis is not yet playing, in the past games, Thomas mostly played in the 1st half only and sometimes few minutes in the 2nd half and not in the desperate last 5 minutes of the 4th quarter.
LeBron James can't hide his frustration as he directly walked towards the locker room because Westbrook haven't made that decisive shot but coach Ham defended the latter and said that it was his coach and let WB to carry the ball in the least seconds.