Five takeaways from the Lakers’ season-opening loss to the Nuggets
yes.”
That would be one of the first team-sanctioned acknowledgments of James’ age. He’s 38 and injuries have abbreviated each of his last three seasons, with an uptick in the kind of soft-tissue problems you’d associate with a lifetime of playing the best basketball in the world from October to June.
Like in previous years, the opportunity to build that number exists, so the ceiling might be…