The NBA will start a few minutes earlier at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, but the eyes of basketball fans will be prostrated in California when two contenders for the title measure strength to start the campaign at the Staples Center, trying to define who will reign in Los Angeles in the 2019-2020 season.
The Doc Rivers quintet is emerging as one of the big favorites to win it all after the addition of Kawhi Leonard, who gave Toronto his first title, and now he wants to replicate this with the Los Angeles team that have always done it side by side. due to the importance of the purple and gold set.
In addition to Kawhi, Los Angeles C. got the services of Paul George, but he will not be available for the operations he underwent on his shoulder during the preseason and that will keep him out of activity at least until November, but they still have tools to be the main protagonists with players like Patrick Beverley, Montrezl Harrell, Landry Shamet, among others.
The squad with which they share the Staples Center was also active in the recess by adding Anthony Davis, a player they wanted from the previous season, to build a powerful dumbbell with LeBron James, Kyle Kuzma and, if necessary coming from the banking, Dwight Howard, who already seems to have lived his best years and is approaching the final stretch.
This will be the first of four times that the faces are seen in the year and then they will have to wait until December 25, so they will seek to take the opportunity to presume who commands at least one month.
Los Angeles L. appear as favorites for 3.5 to take the victory, perhaps due to the absence of Paul George, but Los Angeles C. will seek to prove from the first game that they are real and will give a blow of authority from the first night of the NBA .