Watch: Slo-Mo Angle Of LeBron’s Opening Night Fadeaway On Kawhi Is Amazing

LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers took on Kawhi Leonard and his Clippers. The Lakers lost to Leonard’s team, but LeBron was the star of the show.

Colin Ward-Henninger from CBS Sports says Leonard is the winner ultimate winner.

“If the goal is to steal Los Angeles from the Lakers, Kawhi and the Clippers took their first step on Tuesday. If the goal is simply to establish themselves as one of the best teams in the NBA, well, they also did that. Leonard got off to a slow start but was simply phenomenal on Tuesday, scoring in his normal, unstoppable, efficient way en route to a game-high 30 points. It was nothing we haven’t grown accustomed to after watching Leonard lead the Raptors to a title last season, but it was still fun to watch.”

According to him, LeBron is a loser.

“Well, this is a rarity. You can probably count on one hand the number of times LeBron has come out as a “loser” after any performance, but this was a relative stinker in his first game with Anthony Davis. Normally supremely efficient, James scored 18 points on 7-of-19 shooting (1-for-5 3-pointers) in the loss to the Clippers on Tuesday and committed five turnovers. To highlight how inefficient this game was for LeBron, he hasn’t shot less than 50 percent from the field in a season since 2009, and he only shot a worse percentage than he did in the opener (36.8 percent) four times all of last season. We’re not exactly worried about LeBron bouncing back, but he was a big part of the Lakers’ disappointing opening night.”

Los Angeles won.

“It’s not enough that they have beautiful weather, beaches and celebrities — now L.A. has the NBA’s best teams as well? Unfair. While both teams are far from a finished product, the Clippers and the Lakers put on quite a show in the first installation of the renewed battle for Los Angeles. After a lot of lean years with the Clippers in the 90s and 2000s, and some mediocre Lakers squads in recent years, Angelenos now get to watch two of the league’s top title contenders on a nightly basis. The star power between LeBron, AD and Kawhi was off the charts on Tuesday, and Paul George didn’t even play. P.G. made his impact in other ways, though …”