The Los Angeles Lakers picked up a big win to end their four-game losing streak on Saturday, beating the Oklahoma City Thunder to close out their road trop.
The Lakers now return home with some momentum, which is good considering their next game is on Christmas Day against the Boston Celtics.
This year’s Christmas Day slate is another great one for the NBA with the league’s best rivalry in the Lakers and Celtics on display. What won’t be seen, however, are the NBA’s traditional Christmas Day uniforms.
Since the league switched its sponsorship to Nike, there have no longer been special uniforms on Christmas. One person who is disappointed in this is LeBron James:
This was amazing!! ??????????. I do wish we had Xmas day uniforms across the league still. Wonder why it stopped. ??♂️ https://t.co/A73AF7Dnn0
— LeBron James (@KingJames) December 24, 2023
Rui Hachimura, who will be playing in the first Christmas Day game of his career on Monday, was also disappointed to find out there are no special uniforms, via Dave McMenamin of ESPN:
Rui Hachimura on playing in a Christmas Day game on Monday:
"My first time. I've been dreaming about it. I'm excited. Are we going to have jerseys or no? Like a Christmas jersey?"
When informed there's no special uniform in store, he replied with a disappointed, "Awwww."
— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) December 24, 2023
The good thing is that whenever the Lakers and Celtics match up, there is no need for special uniforms as L.A.’s home gold and Boston’s away green make for arguably the best uniform game in the league.
Unfortunately, the Lakers are scheduled to wear their Sunday white uniforms on Christmas.
More importantly though, the Lakers need a win and the recent play of both James and Hachimura should help accomplish that. Both have been playing well in recent games and given the Celtics’ size on the wing will be needed in this game.
LeBron James NBA Christmas Day records
James is getting set to play in his record 18th Christmas Day game, and naturally, he has broken some records on the league’s most popular regular season day.
In recent years, LeBron passed another Lakers legend in Kobe Bryant to become the NBA’s all-time leader in Christmas Day games and points. He will look to add to those totals on Monday against the Celtics.
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