Any game or practice day that falls on a Laker’s birthday features a performance of the “Happy Birthday” song by the rookies. They would have done it too if all of them knew the version of “Happy Birthday” he requested. “Kuz didn’t know the version apparently,” Ball said of Kyle Kuzma. “There’s like the regular version, like the white version, and then like the soul version, black version. In Jazz point guard Ricky Rubio, Ball will face yet another talented point guard, after two straight reigning all-stars in Lowry and the Wizards’ John Wall.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 28, 2017 05:35 UTC