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Blueprint for Solving LA Lakers' Woes at Center and Wing

Los Angeles Lakers fans have good reason to be excited again, but the team still has major frontcourt holes to fill.

Consider the situation: Kobe Bryant has retired, Roy Hibbert is unlikely to be re-signed (nor should he be) and Metta World Peace is a free agent and more of a mentor at 36.

Also, the underwhelming Robert Sacre and Ryan Kelly are unrestricted free agents and, at best, end-of-the- bench contributors.

To say the Lakers need a starting center and small forward is an understatement. And let’s not hold out hope that Nick “Swaggy P” Young will miraculously rise like a phoenix from the ashes of his last two immolated seasons and take glorious wing once again.