Lakers’ Rui Hachimura enjoying baseball dreams through Shohei Ohtani and Dodgers
LA TimesRui Hachimura took the field in front of a crowd that would grow to more than 50,000 as he soaked in more than the sunshine. “I was like, ‘I don’t know what I want to do.’ But I knew I wasn’t going to do baseball,” he said. ‘Rui … basketball?’ Lakers forward Rui Hachimura, left, dunks over Hornets forward Miles Bridges during a game last week at Crypto.Com Arena. “Let’s go.” Last July, days after Hachimura signed a three-year, $51-million deal to stay with the Lakers, he readied himself to take the mound. Told that Times columnist Dylan Hernandez speaks Japanese well, Hachimura looked at the English-speaking reporter with a raised eyebrow before asking the logical question: “How would you know?” When he took the mound at Dodger Stadium, James shared video of Hachimura’s pitching routine, which included a shakeoff of Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and a smooth leg kick.
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