The opening night of the 2023-24 NBA season didn’t go as planned for the Los Angeles Lakers. They went on the road to face off against the reigning NBA Champion Denver Nuggets and suffered the same fate as in the Western Conference matchup; a resounding loss.
The Lakers lost the game 119-107, making runs a few times in the game but never truly threatening the Nuggets. Every time the game would get close, Denver would respond with a run of their own to keep Los Angeles at bay.
Things could have certainly gone differently for the purple and gold had Anthony Davis not pulled off a disappearing act even Houdini himself would have been jealous of. The star big man got off to a hot start in the first half, scoring 17 points to pace the Lakers. Unfortunately for them, he finished the game with that same total.
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Davis went scoreless in the second half, which is a recipe for disaster for the Lakers. The supporting cast around him and LeBron James is a solid one, but if he is going to go scoreless for entire halves of a game, Los Angeles will struggle to win games.
His lack of production ruined any chance the Lakers had at erasing their nine-point halftime deficit and was the main topic of discussion around the sports world. A lot of it was negative, and rightfully so.
One of the people who took a shot at Davis was Colin Cowherd. On his show, The Herd on FS1 and Fox Sports, on Wednesday afternoon, Cowherd made a brutal and comical comparison for Davis on the court.
“When it works it’s amazing, but it’s about 50% of the time,” Cowherd said about the Lakers star big man.
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It is hard to argue against that comparison made by Cowherd. Davis normally doesn’t go into droughts like the one he had against the Nuggets, but working 50 percent of the time is accurate. He has struggled with injuries throughout his career, providing stretches of dominance mixed with long droughts of unavailability.
