Los Angeles Lakers: 5 Biggest games on their upcoming schedule

The Los Angeles Lakers have had somewhat of a soft schedule until this point, but that is about to change. Take a look at the 5 toughest games upcoming on their calendar.

Much has been made of the Los Angeles Lakers’ soft schedule, helping them get to 22-3, the league’s best record at this point in the season. However, their last few wins against the Denver Nuggets, the Utah Jazz, the Portland Trailblazers, and the Minnesota Timberwolves, have silenced the haters a bit.

Now they face another one of the toughest stretches that their schedule has to offer this season, that will really test them as a team. The Lakers will have the number one strength of schedule of any team in the league during the month of December.

The rest of this month the Lakers will face 6 teams that are currently have winning records. To put that into perspective, the Lakers have only faced 6 teams that currently have a .500 record up until this point.

In December, they will also be on the road more often than not, they will play six of their next nine games on the road this month. Four of those six road games will be against teams that are currently in the playoff picture.

Most of the teams on this list the Lakers have already faced off against, and they make for great grudge matches because their first matchups were so exciting.  The other team included on this list could be a possible finals preview if the season keeps playing out the way it has so far.

Take a look at the 5 best and most difficult games the Lakers will face in the month of December. A month that will include a face off of the two best records in each conference, and a Christmas day game that should be one of the most memorable in recent memory.