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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Sport
Dan Woike

Return of LeBron James and Anthony Davis can’t prevent Lakers meltdown vs. Pelicans

LOS ANGELES — LeBron James came onto the court about an hour before tip off Friday night in all black, grabbing a ball and quickly moving into a pregame workout with assistant Phil Handy.

He cut left and planted, effortlessly shooting his jumper, only briefly stopping to stomp his injured left ankle into the floor while he grimaced.

He missed consecutive threes and unloaded some rapid-fire curse words. He made his next shot.

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