August and September are typically the two slowest months of the NBA calendar, but for new Lakers center Roy Hibbert, they’ve differed from the regular season months only in that he hasn’t been playing official NBA games.
Hibbert’s been a regular presence at the team’s practice facility, both to work out with strength and conditioning coach Tim DiFrancesco, of late adding some muscle mass to a frame from which he’d already lost 16 pounds at his introductory interview to the Lakers.
He’s also been scrimmaging with many of his new teammates, like D’Angelo Russell, Jordan Clarkson and Julius Randle, and making the interview rounds, including coming on our own Lakers.