LAS VEGAS — The Los Angeles Lakers have won their first championship since the 2010 season, breaking a seven-year drought for the purple and gold.
But while their Las Vegas Summer League championship is a nice barometer of just how promising their young talent in, the fact that the Lakers have so acquired so many talented young players with high draft picks is also an indicator of just how far they have to go to return to their glory days.
The Lakers understand that, and know that to get back to hanging banners, they can’t just hang around this offseason.