{"id":215364,"date":"2021-03-31T08:26:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T05:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nets-shrug-off-jeanie-buss-fierce-lakers-message\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T08:26:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T05:26:32","slug":"nets-shrug-off-jeanie-buss-fierce-lakers-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nets-shrug-off-jeanie-buss-fierce-lakers-message\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nets shrug off Jeanie Buss’ fierce Lakers message"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Nets shrug off Jeanie Buss’ fierce Lakers message<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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If the Lakers want to be crowned the too-early favorites for the NBA title, the Nets are happ<\/a>y to oblige.<\/p>\n

After watching the Nets add James Harden via trade in January and, more recently, Blake Griffin and LaMarcus Aldridge off the buyout market, Lakers owner Jeanie Buss had a message heard coast-to-coast: Bring it on.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt brings out the best in us,\u201d Buss said Monday on \u201cStephen A\u2019s World\u201d on ESPN+. \u201cWhen teams identify us as the team to beat and they gear up to go at us head-to-head, that makes us work harder. So, bring it on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nets coach Steve Nash, who played the final two seasons of his Hall of Fame career for the Lakers before retiring in 2015, didn\u2019t exactly throw down a gauntlet in return.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are a great team, great franchise, defending champs,\u201d Nash said. \u201cSo, they are the team to beat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aldridge acknowledged he listened to pitches from other unspecified teams \u2014 the Lakers were in the mix but the Heat were considered the front-runners, according to Yahoo \u2014 before choosing the Nets. Asked directly if his joining a team that now has 41 career All-Star appearances on the roster was a message that he thinks it gives him the best chance to win a ring, Aldridge side-stepped championship expectations.<\/p>\n

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But are the Nets the NBA\u2019s villains, as other super-teams have been?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t follow any of that stuff,\u201d Aldridge said. \u201cIf you\u2019ve followed me during my career I don\u2019t really read clippings and all those types of things. I had no clue about it. Just here to play basketball. I\u2019m older, so it\u2019s an opportunity to be on a winning team and bring some things that I think can help \u2014 and that\u2019s all it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Nets beat the Lakers once and the two teams square off again April 10 in Brooklyn. But even that game<\/a> might not be a true measuring stick if show-stoppers Kevin Durant (hamstring) and LeBron James (ankle) are not back by then. Kyrie Irving has been in and out of the Nets\u2019 lineup and Anthony Davis hasn\u2019t played for the Lakers since Feb. 14.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we do anything necessarily picking out a team,\u201d Nash said. \u201cWe just try to improve every day, in-house and with our player personnel. They [Lakers] have been fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lakers seemed to check the Nets in the arms race when they signed Andre Drummond this week. Griffin, Aldridge and Drummond are the three biggest names who had their contracts bought out by their former teams and became free agents available to contenders.<\/p>\n

The Lakers seemed to check the Nets in the arms race when they signed Andre Drummond this week. Griffin, Aldridge and Drummond are the three biggest names who had their contracts bought out by their former teams and became free agents available to contenders.<\/p>\n

In addition to playing without Davis and James, the Lakers were without Marc Gasol for a stretch and then kept him on a minutes restriction due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s important, is they get back healthy \u2014 100 percent healthy \u2014 before they come back,\u201d Buss said, \u201cso that they stay healthy for the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The irony is neither the Nets (32-15) nor the Lakers (30-17) are in line for a No. 1 seed in the playoffs. The 76ers entered Wednesday with a half-game lead in the East and the Lakers are in fourth in the tightly compacted West, trailing the Jazz by 5.5 games.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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