Most of the positivity around the Los Angeles Lakers Tuesday night was understandably focused on the team retaining it’s top-three protected pick in the 2017 NBA Draft. The Lakers found out they would pick second, and according to Lakers General Manager Rob Pelinka, it’s just the latest thing that makes people around the NBA excited about Los Angeles.
“We’ve been in New York all speaking to agents and you could feel the enthusiasm in the player community and the agent community of just the direction and the vision and where things are headed,” Pelinka told Joey Ramirez of Lakers.