When Alex Caruso and Travis Wear took to the podium on Media Day as the last two Lakers to speak, the press throng had thinned considerably. LeBron James, after all, had finished talking more than an hour prior.
But as a final question before they left, I asked the two South Bay Lakers two-way players if anybody in particular stood out to them over a summer they spent working around most of L.A.’s young guys.
“I’ve been really impressed with Svi,” said Caruso of the 47th pick in the 2018 Draft, Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk out of Kansas and Ukraine.