EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Before the Los Angeles Lakers opened up training camp for their first practice Tuesday, new coach JJ Redick gathered the team for a dinner in Beverly Hills to discuss the identity they will attempt to forge as a group and individuals.
"It was kind of the first time that we all really got together as a team in one setting," Lakers guard Max Christie said. "JJ and the staff had a big presentation for us about kind of like team values, ground rules ... so we can kind of wrap everybody around an identity that we want to have as a team so we're one coherent unit.