The Los Angeles Lakers will be here playing in a packed Target Center on Saturday night and, don't worry, LeBron James will not be skipping this one.
Not on his 39th birthday in the first half of his 21st NBA season, another landmark for the NBA's magnificent ironman.
The Lakers were in Minneapolis on Dec. 21, after they had played in Chicago the previous night, and LeBron did not play the back-to-back. The NBA already had thrown an extra game at James — the final of the first in-season tournament on Dec. 9 in Las Vegas (L.