Fans React To Anthony Davis’ Workout Pictures
The Los Angeles Lakers have had quite an NBA offseason, with the storied franchise making seemingly all the right moves to keep their roster intact and competitive for the upcoming 2023-24 season.
Along with re-signing Austin Reaves, D’Angelo Russell, and Rui Hachimura, the Lakers secured the long-term future of superstar forward Anthony Davis by signing him to a lucrative contract extension.
Although the move has come with some criticism due to Davis’ struggles with staying healthy since joining the Lakers, the team remains confident in his ability to be a focal point for the franchise moving forward.
With the start of next season being a couple of months away, Davis was seen putting in work in the team’s practice facility while sporting a new hairstyle and a new physique, via the Lakers’ Twitter account.
Here are some fan reactions to Davis being back in the gym and looking a bit more muscular than usual, along with a new hairstyle:
Clearly, Davis has made a point of it to bulk up during this NBA offseason, which is something he did a couple of years ago.
Although he didn’t have much success with the bulkier physique, Davis seemingly felt compelled to give it another shot in an effort to deal with the rigors of an 82-game regular season.
If Davis is locked in and able to stay healthy throughout the upcoming season, the Lakers have a great shot at contending for a title, as they will be one of the deepest and most talented teams in the league.
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Lakers get massive, unfair advantage in 2023-24 schedule
The Los Angeles Lakers schedule for the 2023-24 season has officially been released and fans can already start to buy their tickets. While the Lakers end up playing all 29 other teams regardless, the construction of the schedule absolutely can have an impact on the team’s performance.
Every season is going to have its ups and downs. Sometimes a team draws the short end of the stick with the schedule and other times, a team gets a massive advantage that other teams do not get.
Massive advantage on Lakers schedule feels unfair for the rest of the NBA
The Lakers are going to end up playing just as many road games as every other team in the league but it legitimately feels unfair that they will have two separate month-long stretches where the team is not going to have to do much traveling.
Both of these stretches consist of long homestands for the Lakers that so happen to coincide with very short travel trips. Whether it be a “road game” against the Clippers or a short trip to Northern California, the Lakers can get in and out and still sleep in their own beds after each of these games.
The second stretch from mid-February to mid-March may end up deciding the seeding in the Western Conference. Not only does this come at a great time when the going starts to get tough, but it comes right after the All-Star Break.
Any Laker that does not make the All-Star Game is going to get an even longer stretch of time where they don’t have to really leave home. Los Angeles has a three-game homestand that starts on February 8 before ending the first half of the season on February 14 in Utah.
This means that from February 8 all the way until March 24 any Laker who isn’t an all-star will only have to leave California twice with one short trip to Utah and one short trip to Phoenix.
The Lakers ended up on the “massive advantage” side of the spectrum. While there certainly are rough patches, Los Angeles has two stretches during the 2023-24 season that definitely seem unfair to other NBA teams.
Home-court advantage is a very real thing, not just because of the supportive crowd (which the Lakers play great in front of) but because of the ease of not having to travel. Because of this advantage, the Lakers may be able to secure home-court advantage in the NBA Playoffs.
