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Let’s appreciate a Laker: Nick Young, a bright spot during a dark season

Editor’s Note: For as long as the NBA season is stopped, we’ll be taking a look back at players from Lakers history that we can’t stop thinking about. Today, we remember Nick Young.

The 2013-14 season was one of big change for the Los Angeles Lakers. Not only did they lose Dwight Howard to the Houston Rockets in free agency, but they opened their regular season without their star shooting guard, Kobe Bryant, for the first time since 2006 due to the devastating achilles injury he suffered the season prior.