The Young Lakers Are Fucking This Up
Photo: LM Otero (AP) LeBron James went down with a groin injury way back on Christmas Day. You cannot build, even in theory, a cast of teammates and a basketball ecosystem that wouldn’t suffer in the immediate aftermath of losing a player of LeBron’s prominence, but the young Lakers, at least in theory, should’ve been relatively fine. Last season’s Lakers, with no LeBron, and oriented around the precocious playmaking of a pair of rookies, went 24-20 from January 7 onward. Just the expected development of Lonzo Ball and Kyle Kuzma, plus another year under the belt of Brandon Ingram, should’ve...
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