On April 2, Beijing time, the Lakers home battle against the Pelicans, James and thick eyebrows returned to the field, the first quarter of the vicious incident, the Pelicans will deliberately push James, thick eyebrows for the old Zhan uneven, and Hayes spat garbage words, the Lakers fell behind 25-30 5 points in the first quarter.
In the first quarter of 8 minutes and 40 seconds, Pelicans youngster Hayes was very dissatisfied with James's elbow hit his abdomen before, resentful and retaliated against James, after hayes deliberately fouled and knocked down James, old Zhan lay on the floor, witness, thick eyebrows for the first time for old Zhan stepped forward, ran from the other end of the court, and Hayes exchanged garbage words, fierce quarrels; the referee replayed this scene, and finally blew Hayes a first-level malicious foul.
After the foul incident, James turned on the offensive mode, two consecutive times to meet Hayes's defense to score the ball, three points and emergency stop dry pull all have, but the Lakers opened too many mistakes, coupled with McCollum full firepower, the Lakers once played very passive; in the second quarter of 2 minutes and 19 seconds, James and Thick Brow both went off the field at the same time, sitting side by side.
James scored 9 points on 4-of-6 shooting in the first quarter of 9 minutes, returned after only 2 games after a 90-degree break, returned to the field after 45 days, and scored 2 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists on 1-of-3 shooting in 9 minutes, and scored on the first shot in the opening game.