LOS ANGELES – Wait, so people actually thought that adding 23 to the 10-4 Lakers might be a minus ?

Well, they beat the Utah Jazz on Tuesday , are now 11-4 and riding high after putting up a season-high 140 points in a game they won by 14 and that felt like a concert, every member of the band in tune and hitting all the right notes.

The conductor, LeBron James, said afterward: “Just so fun.”

He was smiling still following his first game back from sciatica, which cost him all of training camp and the first 14 games of the season. It was strange not to see him to start a season.

No worries now, because before a packed, appreciative house, the 40-year-old wearing No. 23 was out there again touching hardwood, debuting in his history-making 23rd season and – dare I say – doing it in pre

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