When it was just a few months since the 201-20 season ended in the DisneyWorld ‘bubble’, in Orlando, and with the title for the Los Angeles Lakers from LeBron James, we already have the next one on top, which It starts this next morning and with Los Angeles as great favorites to the ring.
And is that these Lakers maintain the same air as last season, with an important incorporation, especially in the position of ‘center’, with the arrival of the center of Sant Boi, Marc Gasol, eager to achieve his second ring, just like his brother Pau did. Incorporations like Montrezl Harrell, Dennis Schroder and Wesley Matthews end up propping up the champion for this year.
Lakers are presented as the great challenge for the rest of the West, although the Clippers will return to the charge with their two great stars, such as Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, who have added inner power with Marc’s other Toronto teammate, Serge Ibaka.
An important reinforcement of the team of Tyron Lue, who equalizes forces between the two Los Angeles teams and that the new season will open precisely the next morning.
Milwaukee, the threat from the East
Antetokounmpo wants to win the ring this year
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In the Este, the two great ‘threats’ to the Lakers are Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Milwaukee Bucks and the Heat, who want to make a new leap to the title. Great disappointment in the past play-offs for the Bucks, falling in the semifinals, and they will want to make up for it this year, with the arrival of players like Jrue Holiday and Eric Bledsoe.
Antetokounmpo, who just signed the most lucrative contract in NBA history, He wants to win the ring but he also wants to be chosen the MVP of the season, in which he will fight again alongside LeBron, and who knows if Luca Doncic is ready to match them.
The Miami Heat They are presented again as an alternative after reaching the final in Orlando. Those of Erik Spoeltra know that they will have a new opportunity after incorporating Avery Bradley and Maurice Harkless.
We will see which teams manage to surprise in a season that comes with many changes and also a reduction of matches. The pandemic is still alive in the world, and the NBA is not getting rid of it, not even to return the spectators to the courts, which will still have to wait.
