D’Angelo Russell, his voice as level as the top of a NBA backboard, made sure to point out the thing that he was about to say needed to be bolded and underlined.
“‘I’m going to continue to stress it,” he said. “But what you guys see is a team figuring it out.”
Russell sat in front of the media and said this Monday night, his Lakers having just grinded through a win against the Orlando Magic.
By midway through the first quarter Wednesday, that journey seemed a long ways from coming to an end.