At the start of last year’s training camp, former head coach Byron Scott singled out Jordan Clarkson as the Laker who got into the best shape over the offseason.
Clarkson has steadily improved his frame in his two years as a Laker, causing him and Strength and Conditioning Coach Tim DiFrancesco to find a humorous look back at the University of Missouri product that showed up in Los Angeles in 2014.
“He and I laugh about it together,” DiFrancesco said. “He came in as — for lack of a better term — a scrawny college kid. Athletically, he could always get up and down and up in the air and compete at the NBA level from day one.