A fter downing the Utah Jazz by 14 points and looking robust offensively on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Lakers have had quite a bit of time off. They haven't played a game since, which has meant some rare and precious practice time, time that is normally hard to come by during the NBA's grueling schedule.

The Utah Jazz came up short in playing spoiler against the Los Angeles Lakers in what was LeBron James' official regular season debut for the two's first meeting of the new year, as the Jazz would lose 125-140 on the road at Crypto.com Arena, and marks their ninth total loss of the season at just under 15 games.