The Los Angeles Lakers played 16 players in their preseason-opening loss to the Denver Nuggets, with everyone on their 19-man training camp roster that was healthy enough to play seeing the floor other than Jeffrey Carroll.
But even with Carroll, Lonzo Ball and Moe Wagner’s absences from the lineup, that’s still a wider distribution of minutes than an NBA team can even employ during the season, when active rosters are limited to 13 players per game.
So while Lakers head coach Luke Walton obviously knows that he’ll have to trim his rotation down, he does think the Lakers have a lot of guys who can contribute at the NBA level (via Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN):
Walton said he will utilize the Lakers’ depth, and the rotation could be different for players from night to night, including small-ball variations as well.