The Lakers received great news yesterday that Julius Randle has been cleared for contact drills. Along with this news, many videos were posted showing a slimmed down Randle working hard on his game at the Lakers’ practice facility. This is obviously huge given the devastating broken leg that he suffered during the first game of the season after showing so much promise during summer league and the preseason.
But, as exciting as it may be to see the Lakers 7th overall pick from last year’s draft inching closer to becoming fully healthy, Randle really shouldn’t factor into the Lakers’ offseason plans.