Welcome to our Lakers Season Preview Series! For the next several weeks, we’ll be writing columns every week day, breaking down the biggest questions we have about every player the Lakers added this offseason. Today, we take a look at Dwight Howard.
Despite our best efforts, it’s pretty rare for any of us to be prescient enough to really know how any given NBA personnel decision will turn out. There’s too much context and variability in how a player’s role will be defined (and how they’ll adapt to it) for the view to ever be perfectly clear.