LeBron James credits health for his improved defense
November 4, 2019 at 6:50 AM
The Los Angeles Lakers have the best defense in the NBA. It's just six games into the season, but this was unexpected. Los Angeles is allowing less than a point per possession (96.3 defensive rating, via NBA.com), and holding teams to the lowest effective field goal percentage against in the league (45.6 percent) Going back to Laker media day, new coach Frank Vogel talked about the Lakers being a defense-first team, but it was shrugged off because what coach doesn't say his team will be defense first?
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