Guessing who the Los Angeles Lakers would select in the 2018 NBA Draft seemed like it would be nearly impossible going into the pre-draft process, owing to the fact that the team has had a knack for finding relatively unheralded diamonds in the rough over the last several seasons and wouldn’t be picking in the lottery, meaning there are more possibilities among players with similar talent levels.
Over the weekend, however, there was a (somewhat suspect) report that the Lakers had promised Mitchell Robinson they’d take him with the 25th pick, leading to him dropping out of the NBA Draft Combine.