The Lakers' Wesley Matthews is prepared to continue playing more minutes with teammate Kentavious Caldwell-Pope battling a quadriceps injury.
An autographed Kobe Bryant jersey photo-matched from his rookie season is reportedly the highest-selling basketball jersey ever.“What it is, is it’s not panic. That’s the biggest thing. That’s for ya’ll to do. For us, we can’t panic,” Matthews said. “… We know that we’ve played basketball for however many years everybody has played basketball. We’ve taken how many thousands, hundreds of thousands of millions of shots and repetitions. Again, there’s no … it’s not time for us to panic.
“We don’t crunch numbers and do all that stuff. We lace our shoes up when we get to work, and, honestly, if we’re going to be in a shooting slump, I’d rather be in a shooting slump and be winning. There’re so many ways to impact the game, and on the defensive end is definitely the most important way to impact the game. Obviously, shooting makes the game easier. But if we’re holding a team like that to 99 and under 100 points, we’re giving ourselves a chance to get hot.