With the dust still settling from the conclusion of the 2018 NBA draft combine, teams and scouts have swiftly begun running back to headquarters to edit their big boards after getting what theoretically was their first face to face time with this year’s class of prospects.
The Los Angeles Lakers were not excluded from the experience, as both Rob Pelinka and Magic Johnson made their way to Chicago to get their very own glimpses of who could potentially fit this year’s first round bill.
Not unfamiliar to using the combine as a resource in analyzing prospects, the team struck gold there last year when they caught the newly appointed member of the NBA’s “All Rookie-first team,” Kyle Kuzma’s shooting barrage in person, something that has since been noted as serving a factor in the team selecting him 27th overall.