Welcome to our Lakers Season Preview Series! For the next several weeks, we’ll be writing columns every weekday, breaking down the biggest questions we have about every player the Lakers added and retained this offseason. Today, we finish with a look at Russell Westbrook.
Five months have passed since Russell Westbrook conducted a true spectacle of an exit interview after his first season with the Lakers, assigning blame to everyone but himself for the way that disaster transpired, and leaving a blazing trail in his wake on his way out of Los Angeles.