The Los Angeles Lakers are in one of their classic interwar periods and getting the ring has become an unlikely task this season. Of course, having LeBron James and Anthony Davis on their roster ensures that they are able to win many games and provide a spectacle to the Staples Center, but if you introduce the scalpel into your rotation you are not on par with the fittest franchises. the NBA, like the Boston Celtics, their eternal archenemies. That fantastic 2020 championship is becoming further and further away, in the midst of a pandemic, and Angelenos welcome any positive news. And the last one already has a first and last name: Dalton Knetch. The forward, who makes his debut this year in the league after being chosen by the Californians in 17th place in the last Draft, revealed all his talent in the early hours of this Wednesday against the Utah Jazz. He started and scored 37 points thanks to his virtuosity at the three-point line, from where he made nine hits in 12 attempts, the best record ever for a rookie. His bombing left the Salt Lake City team knocked out, the Lakers added their tenth victory in 14 games (124-118) and even allowed themselves the luxury of emulating Michael Jordan’s classic gesture, raising his hands and with the gesture of “this “It’s what it is, I’m that good.” Seeing a rookie with so much confidence and energy, especially if he plays for the Lakers, one of the most media shields in the league, has raised expectations around Knetch. A self-confidence that he has had since the day he was born, as his mother, Carrie, stated in an interview while her son was playing in college. As the former player also assures, when the forward was born on April 18, 2001, he did not stop screaming and moving all his limbs. So his parents remembered one of their favorite movies, ‘Professional: Hard’, and decided to name him after the protagonist, Dalton, played by the legendary Patrick Swayze. In that cult work from the eighties, the now deceased actor played a doctorate in Philosophy who, however, earns his living as a nightclub security guard, where he left aside quoting Aristotle to distribute tow among the thugs of the area. An unlikely script but one that fell in love with a generation, so much so that, when Knetch’s parents saw their newborn emulate the kicks and hooks of the great Swayze, they had no choice but to give him the name of his character. “It’s a very old movie, it wasn’t bad,” said the player as an adult, with the classic indifference of generation Z. Related News Standard basketball No Almansa, Rafa Villar, Saint-Supery and Josep Puerto, debutants in a new list by Scariolo ABC The coach puts together a renewed list for the second qualifying window for Eurobasket 2025, with a double matchup against Slovenia. The fact is that Dalton kept the battery overloaded since so. His mother also said that, in kindergarten, his teachers let him go running in the yard so that he could satisfy his need to raise his heart rate. A mantra that fit perfectly into basketball, a sport he has played since he was six years old. After playing at a high school and at the university in his native Colorado, he was transferred in the 2020-21 campaign to Tennessee, where he averaged more than 20 points per game. Numbers that did not go unnoticed by the Lakers, who bet on him when many other franchises only saw a good shooter who suffered on defense. “The other 16 teams have screwed up,” LeBron said after the duel against the Jazz.
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