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Oram: Lakers rookie Brandon Ingram embraces the pressure, symbolic and otherwise, of lofty expectations

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EL SEGUNDO – On the official tour of his new basketball home, Brandon Ingram walked onto the court of the Lakers practice facility and upstairs to Jeanie Buss’s office to gaze at the franchise’s championship trophies; into the weight room to eye the iron he will use to pack muscle onto his wiry frame; and to the locker room, where the tour stopped in front of the locker where his No. 14 jersey will hang.

“(General Manager) Mitch (Kupchak) told me I had some big shoes to fill,” Ingram said.

The previous occupant of that space wore size 14 Nikes.