This is a fun game to thirst over. After being disrespected by the Lakers for the past two years. Pau Gasol will face the Lakers in a Bulls uniform on Christmas Day according to Dave McMenamin of ESPN LA.
It will be the Lakers’ 16th straight Christmas Day game, dating to 1999, but the first they’ve played on the road since going to Miami to play Shaquille O’Neal and the Heat in 2006.
In another game on the calendar with reunion implications, L.A. will open the season against the Houston Rockets, according to sources.
This would be so much better if the Lakers hosted Chicago but after last year it would be unfair for the Lakers to host a Christmas Day game twice in a row. Christmas Day basketball is shaping up nicely.
