it took off some of the pressure that had been building. But I saw a team starring LeBron James and Luka Doncic. Today.

I saw opponents having to deal with a couple of the NBA’s coldest on-court killers, big guys built for the biggest of moments, both of them basketball-brilliant, with permanent track records to back that up.

I saw replacing 32-year-old Anthony Davis with the 26-year-old Doncic being about now and later. It made the Lakers different, but it didn’t make them worse.

I see it as a reminder: Sometimes, greed is good. Sometimes you’ve got to want the whole world, and to want it given to you now.

Khobi Price, SCNG’s Lakers’ beat writer, reminded me of that 2023 video of LeBron, the four-time NBA champion, encouraging his teammates after a victory at Sacramento. “Let’s get greedy,” he told them. “Let’s get real greedy.” The Lakers had won five straight; the man wanted more.

And then Russell Westbrook interjected with such a record scratch of a counter-proposal it felt like a spoof: “Just keep having fun, bro,” Brodie said. “Be happy for the next man, keep having fun, bro. Win, lose or draw, just keep having fun, bro.” And the Lakers lost the next three — good times, indeed!

I mean, sure. It’s basketball. It’s supposed to be fun.

Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards is going to have fun.

He and his teammates, who have lost only four times since March 2, are coming to L.A. hoping to have a great time giving the Lakers a hard time. They have size where the Lakers don’t. They’ve got the world picking against them as motivation. They’ve got the experience of last year’s run to the Western Conference finals — and the experience of getting torched there by Doncic, then Dallas’ star.

So, hear, hear. Here’s to a fun series — that the Lakers should win.

And to a postseason — which feels truly unpredictable, unscriptable — that they could win.

If the Lakers get past Minnesota, they’ll get either the second-seeded Houston Rockets or seventh-seeded Golden State Warriors. And if they get past them, to get through the Western Conference, it’ll be the Oklahoma City Thunder, top-seeded but without much postseason tread, or Denver, the Clippers or, less likely, the Memphis Grizzlies or Dallas.

Here’s what those potential combinations of opponents aren’t going to do these LeBron-and-Luka-led Lakers: Make them blink.

“The urgency is ever-present,” Lakers’ general manager Rob Pelinka said at Doncic’s Feb. 4 introductory news conference. “From the first day I started taking this job until I sit in the chair right now, there’s always an urgency to win championships. That’s what the Lakers set out to do.”

Always, always, always. Which is not remotely reasonable or realistic, of course, even for an organization that has hung 17 banners. Because, actually, winning championships is hard. That’s why some teams have never done it. Why so many of the game’s greatest players never did. Why, say, a Denver Nuggets team featuring Nikola Jokic playing as well as anyone could for the past five years, has won just one.

You need for the stars to align and to align the right stars, opportunistic game-changers who live for the moments that might or might not come back around. You never know.

Nothing is perfect; life happens, kings age, rosters evolve, rules change, Austin Reaves will deserve a raise when his player option comes up ahead of the 2025-26 season.

So here’s what they are going to do tonight: Everything they can to seize the day, taking nothing for granted — least of all LeBron’s new partnership with Luka, however long it lasts at its current level, however deep into this postseason it takes them. However much fun that might be.