“There’s a lot more that [Lauri Markkanen] can do than I thought previously,” Mike Conley said. “Once we found that out in training camp, it was like we were trying to keep him a secret. But he’s starting to show the world who he is.” takenote
Neither is there any need for a “revenge game” when the Jazz and Lakers face off in L.A. on Friday night. Heading into the matchup , he’s got some bragging rights:THT said he still gets occasional text messages from LeBron James and Russell Westbrook, checking in on him, but that otherwise, he’s pretty much left his Lakers days behind.
Asked about the differences in approach between the franchises, he noted the Lakers tended toward short practices and long film sessions on account of having rosters dominated by older veterans, whereas these Jazz do the opposite because they’re mostly a young team — with him one of the youngest, despite being in his fourth season.
“I’m still 21 now — probably the same age as [some] rookies,” he said. “It’s kind of funny — everyone’s calling me the youngest vet ever.”tie to his Lakers days that he’ll never leave behind: the championship ring he won as part of the Lakers squad that prevailed in the Orlando bubble in 2021. “Oh, it’s in the safe. It’s not going nowhere,” Horton-Tucker said. “Here and there I go back and look at it, to give me a little bit of motivation.”
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