Over a decade after they last played in the championship round of the postseason—leading to a Game 7 victory against the Boston Celtics in June of 2010—the Los Angeles Lakers are back in the NBA Finals! This long-awaited moment (for Lake Show fans, that is) comes after LeBron James willed his team to a 117-107 win against the Denver Nuggets in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals tonight. Not only is King James in position to win his fourth NBA title, but Anthony Davis (who cemented his place in Lakers lore with that buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the end of Game 2 last Sunday) is also poised to win his first ring should the Lakers prevail against its next opponent...which will either be the Celtics or the Miami Heat.
If the Lake Show emerges as the 2020 NBA champion at Florida's Walt Disney World next month, this will lead to it tying the Celtics at 17 titles apiece. But more significantly in this unusual and devastating year, this will also solidify the Lakers' effort in honoring Kobe Bryant one more time this season. Only four more games need to be won for the Mamba... Happy Saturday.
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