About two hours before the Lakers opened the regular season against the Clippers at Staples Center, Coach Frank Vogel said wasn’t going to announce his starting lineup “until 30 minutes prior” to the game.
When the mystery was over, Vogel obviously started LeBron James and Anthony Davis at forward, Marc Gasol at center, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope at shooting guard and Dennis Schroder at point guard.
There really wasn’t a surprise there.
Yes, Kyle Kuzma started the first three exhibition games and was sharp.
But with his team being so deep, Vogel decided to go with that fivesome, saying “We’re going to look at a lot of different combinations” during the 72-game season.