Los Angeles Lakers basketball is back and even though the games don’t count, you will be able to watch the Lakers first action against another NBA team when they scrimmage against Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday afternoon.

How To Watch

Time: 4 p.m. Pacific/7 p.m. Eastern

Channel: Spectrum SportsNet (In local Lakers television area), NBATV and NBA League Pass

The Lakers had an inter-squad scrimmage on Tuesday but they will finally get their first test against another NBA team, and a good one at that, in the Mavericks. Lakers head coach Frank Vogel said he did not envision his star players LeBron James and Anthony Davis playing in every scrimmage game, so we don’t know who exactly will play for the Lakers or Mavericks until closer to game time.

Each of the 22 teams at the NBA Restart has three scrimmages against teams that they won’t be playing in their eight seeding games, which will lead into the playoffs.