The Los Angeles Lakers very easily could have used up their cap space next season to make additions more widely seen as “solid” next year, but instead opted to trust in the development of young players like Kyle Kuzma to bolster the roster around LeBron James.
However, any time the concept of youth is brought up in professional sports, analysis tends to jump to the conclusion that the team in question doesn’t care about the immediate future.
Kuzma isn’t having any of that, as he told Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN.
“I don’t know why people kind of just rule us out because we are young,” said Kuzma, who was a first-team All-Rookie performer after averaging 16.