Dillon Brooks keeps finding ways to make Lakers fans uncomfortable

Playoff basketball rolls on with out the Phoenix Suns. That does not imply they are not watching. In some instances, they’re getting faraway from the view.

The Los Angeles Lakers hosted the Oklahoma City Thunder for Game 4 of the Western Conference Semifinals on Monday evening, and a well-recognized face was sitting within the crowd. Thunder guards Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Luguentz Dort share one thing in widespread with Suns ahead Dillon Brooks, as all three are members of Team Canada. So, in a recreation during which SGA and Dort may doubtlessly clinch their second consecutive journey to the Western Conference Finals, it wasn’t stunning to see their nationwide teammate Dillon Brooks sitting baseline at Crypto.com Arena taking within the recreation.

What made it much more entertaining is Brooks’ ongoing rivalry with LeBron James. The two have had loads of run-ins through the years, some courting again to Brooks’ time with the Memphis Grizzlies, others occurring this previous season with Phoenix. When the Amazon Prime broadcast lower to Brooks sitting courtside, iced out in jewellery as LeBron stood on the free throw line, it felt very on model.

And realizing Brooks, there have been most likely a number of feedback exchanged as he rooted for his pals to take down the Lakers.

Dillon Brooks is extension-eligible this upcoming offseason, and it will be attention-grabbing to see which course the Phoenix Suns select to go. Do they get forward of it now and lock him up early? Or do they wait till subsequent summer time, when he turns into an unrestricted free agent and revisit it then?

He was a serious a part of the id and tradition shift Phoenix skilled this previous season, and that carries actual worth. The query is how a lot worth the group locations on it financially. Until then, it is good to see Brooks having fun with the offseason and persevering with the Suns custom of rooting towards the Los Angeles Lakers.