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Elfrid Payton and Jahlil Okafor: Better Lakers Combo?

Movies such as “Back to the Future” and Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” explore the butterfly effects of time travel and provide unique perspective into what could have been.

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The ability to go back and change certain events no matter the scale, big or small, can have unforeseen ripple effects.

Imagine a world where the Los Angeles Lakers selected Elfrid Payton with the seventh overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft instead of Julius Randle and followed that up by taking Jahlil Okafor, passing on D’Angelo Russell at No.