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Welcome to the mismatch of Chris Vernon. It join me. He does every Friday from the Ringer.com.

Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Bomber, Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Candyland, Kevin O'Camera, Kevin O'Kinus,

Kevin O'Vereactor, Kevin O'Climber, Kevin O'Connor. All right, so we got a lot of stuff to get to.

We saw last night a couple of things that we will touch on, not the least of which was Anthony

Davis making his return to the court for the Los Angeles Lakers. He played less than 20 minutes,

did not hit many shots last night. The rest was certainly there and it does seem like it could

take a minute for him to get back to form. That being said, he made his return last night and

I think the story out of that is kind of that the Lakers were able to hold the fork down

while without LeBron James and without Anthony Davis. LeBron will be coming back at some point,

but at least they've gotten Davis back now in the lineup despite the results of last night's game.

In the end, they're in the five spot right now. They are three and a half back from Denver,

so there's some separation there, but they stayed two and a half games up on Portland and on

Dallas. So there was not the free fall in the standings that there certainly could have been

without LeBron and AD. And so it was nice to see him back on the court. And I'd imagine that they'll

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