THE Los Angeles Lakers stunned the Boston Celtics with a signature win on Thursday night.
The Lakers won 117-96 behind 24 points from Anthony Davis, 23 from Austin Reaves and 20 points and 14 rebounds from LeBron James.
Anthony Davis wants the LA Lakers to add reinforcements despite a signature win over the Boston Celtics LeBron James was at his very best during the gameThe win over the Celtics moved the Lakers to 24-18 and up to fifth in the NBA Western Conference.
Davis, who enjoyed a dominant defensive display, thinks the team are “right there” but are another big away from being a true contender.
He told ESPN: “I think we need another big.
“I feel like I’ve always been at my best when I’ve been the 4, having a big out there.”
Davis pointed to the 2020 Championship team as having those extra bigs and how they took advantage of that.
“We know it worked when we won a championship with JaVale [McGee] and Dwight [Howard] at the 5 and I’m at the 4.
“We feel like we are right there, you know, as far as the team and everything like that.
“[LeBron] and I are like very, very motivated to win another championship.”
He then added: “I think our front office is, obviously, working.
“Rob’s been working on trying to better the team. But for us, it’s about going out there and playing.
“Whether something happens or not, we got to go out and compete with whatever is in this locker room, just how we did tonight.
“We’re going to be doing a [road] trip.
“I’m not sure what’s going to happen and I know [Rob] is always working on the phones and stuff like that.
“But at the end of the day, we can’t try to wait on anything.
“We got to go out and compete and do what we got to do to to win basketball games.”
New rights deal
The NBA signed an 11-year deal with three networks for the league's rights from the 2025-26 season.
And there will be no games on TNT for the first time since the network launched in 1988.
The Walt Disney Company will continue to show the league with 80 regular-season games across ESPN and ABC.
They will also show around 18 playoff games from the first and second round, a Conference Finals series for 10 of the 11 years, and remain the home of the NBA Finals.
NBC will return as an NBA broadcaster for the first time since 2002.
The network will show up to 100 games per season across it’s channels and Peacock streaming service.
It will also be the home of NBA All-Star and show approximately 28 playoff games from the first and second round.
NBC will show one Conference Finals Series for six of the 11 years, rotating with new broadcaster Amazon Prime.
Amazon will show 66 NBA regular-season games including one on Black Friday.
The streaming service is also the home of the latter stages of the NBA Cup and the entire Play-In Tournament.
Prime will also broadcast around one third of the playoff games in the first and second round.
LeBron enjoyed one of his most complete performances of the season, not only leading the team offensively but being back to his best defensively and crashing the boards.
“Be physical defensively, share the ball offensively. Communicate.
“I don’t think it’s even about Boston, Boston knows who they are.
“We are still learning and trying to get better at what we want to do.
“We’ll have a game plan in place for such a great team, but they’re in a different place than we are.”
Asked if they were ready to compete at this level all the time, LeBron said: “No, that’s not how our team is constructed.
“We don’t have room for error — for much error… We don’t have a choice.
“I mean that’s the way our team is constructed. We have to play close to perfect basketball.
“We know the game is never perfect, it’s never going to be a 48-minute perfect basketball game.”
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