Way back in November, as the Lakers continued to provide zero clarity on how Kendrick Nunn was progressing from his bone bruise even after he had long exceeded his original timeline and whispers mounted publicly and privately that he wasn’t really anywhere close to a return, I wrote that “it’s nearly time for the Lakers to start considering anything Nunn does eventually give them a bonus, not an expectation.”
It seems that — several false starts and setbacks later — that the Lakers have finally admitted that long-apparent inevitability, as Chris Haynes of TNT reported on the network’s Tuesday broadcast of Lakers vs.