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Luke Walton is trying to build for the future while the Lakers front office wants him to win now.

When the Los Angeles Lakers brought in Luke Walton in 2016, the team was coming off its worst season in franchise history. During that organization-worst stretch, they were led by an old school, hard-nosed head coach in Byron Scott, whose methods of player development — or lack thereof — drew heavy criticism from the fanbase and ultimately led to him losing his job.

In Walton, the Lakers were getting a young head coach — the youngest in the league, in fact — who could boast championship pedigree as both a player in Los Angeles and a coach up north with the Golden State Warriors, a team that set the standard for how modern basketball should be played.