The Los Angeles Lakers and Portland Trail Blazers could be first-round opponents in the playoffs and things are already heating up between the squads.
Getty Terry Stotts of the Portland Trail Blazers talks with Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum. The Portland Trail Blazers are hot and have their sights set on a first-round matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers if all goes according to plan. But things between the two Western Conference foes are already heating up, with Blazers skipper Terry Stotts taking a shot at the Lakers during a recent press conference. Stotts appeared to be caught on a hot mic calling out the top seed in the Western Conference over their lack of mask etiquette inside the bubble. “The Lakers don’t wear these but I do,” Stotts said before putting a mask on, drawing a reaction from the reporters on hand. Stotts takes a shot at the @Lakers ???? #RipCity pic.twitter.com/JEx0Ofq1U5 NBC Sports Northwest (@NBCSNorthwest) August 10, 2020 Stotts may have a point. Lakers center Dwight Howard made some noise early in the bubble, drawing a warning for not wearing a mask. “They sanitize everything,” Howard said. “We’re getting tested every day. So, it’s not like we’re around anybody that can give it to us because we all get tested together. And so, we’re only around each other. We’re only around everybody that’s in the bubble. We don’t see any outsiders. We don’t have any contact with any outsiders. “I understand the whole ‘wear a mask’ and all that stuff, so nobody is not trying to do anything out of order. But, you know, again, I understand that there always has to be some type of controversy somewhere.
