http://www.nba.com/lakers/schedule/index.html - Open and close the season against the Clippers - 25 nationally televised games - Play at home against Cleveland on Christmas - A lot of home games to begin the year, a lot of road games to end the year - 8 game road trip - 19 back to backs
Holy crap. I thought it was a rule each team had to have at least one televised game, no? Wow. I'm not feeling the Xmas day matchup or the road games to end the year.
We were the best road team in the league last year. No worries. Road games are when teams bond. I think it was Lamar who said it was during one of our long trips last year that the team really bonded and believed themselves. Let's do it again!
Yeah, guess that's cool, now I remember how much it helped the team. But really though, I just can't get why writers always say that LA's chemistry is fake. Do we have to make idiotic poses before the game and ridicule/humiliate the opponent during the game for them to believe us?