Lakers starting lineup vs. Warriors includes Russell Westbrook
added 27 points and Westbrook had 19 points and 11 boards. Stephen Curry led the Warriors with 33 points.After bringing him off the bench for their final preseason game Friday, an experiment that lasted all of five minutes before he injured a hamstring, Ham reinserted Westbrook with the first five — a role he’s held for all but the first 17 games of his career.
Asked before the game about his conversations with Westbrook this summer, Ham said he connected with the guard’s honesty while telling him he understood that last season’s failings shouldn’t fall squarely on his shoulders. “Again, sacrificing meaning diversifying your game, maybe doing some things you’re not accustomed to to doing or maybe haven’t done a lot of. It’s a little different from the way you’re normally impacting the game. But all of those things just require you to be a total basketball player, and that’s what I challenged him to do.”
The team also had to deal with losing another possible piece of its rotation, Thomas Bryant, to yet another thumb surgery. The Lakers announced Bryant would be reevaluated in three weeks after having the same procedure that guard Dennis Schroder had Monday.Reserve Juan Toscano-Anderson received his Warriors championship ring prior to the game, joining his teammates from last season as they raised the 2021-22 banner.
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