The Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors are two of the best teams in the NBA entering the 2020/21 season and plenty of fans and analysts believe they are the two teams that will compete to win the Western Conference next campaign.
The purple and gold just won the NBA championship and now they’re ready to defend their title, but teams like the Clippers, Nuggets and Warriors will try to dethrone them next year. This duel will take a big relevance next season and we can’t wait to see these two squads clash.
Golden State are seen as the biggest threat for the Lakers in the upcoming campaign and the NBA is well aware of that. That’s why a game between these two teams is reportedly in the works for Christmas day.
Lakers-Warriors will headline the Christmas Day NBA game
According to Brian Windhorst of ESPN, the league is planning to put these two squads against each other, given all the expectations around them and the fact that they want to keep things ‘local.’
“Well, here we go again with me having to be Scrooge and having to bring the realist. I think those are fun matchups, Jorge. But that necessitates two teams going coast to coast in the first week of the season. The NBA is looking to reduce travel by 25% or more this year. So, I think they’re gonna try to keep teams local, especially on Christmas,” explained Windhorst.
“Now yes, as you mentioned Rachel, there’s going to be ring night, which will be on TNT, and then there’s going to be Christmas Day games, which will be on ABC and ESPN. I’m sure there’s having negotiations with our bosses and bosses over in turn to figure that out. But I think that the game that you will see as the centerpiece game will be Warriors and Lakers.”
This would be huge for the league on one of the most important days of the season. These two teams will be bigger animators next season and a Christmas day game between them would be incredible to watch.
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