The final curtain is about to fall on the 2016-17 season for the Los Angeles Lakers. It started with the hiring of a promising young head coach but ended with a whole new front office, which speaks volumes about what happened in between.
There were highs and lows during the season, but unfortunately, there were far more of the latter than the former. The young players all had big individual moments but were maddeningly inconsistent and never came together as a group on the court. The net result was that, for the fourth year in a row, the Lakers were one of the league’s worst teams and missed the playoffs.