As JaVale McGee walked down a hallway in the Lakers’ Disney World hotel, lightly teasing two-way player Kostas Antetokounmpo about how many bags he had for a player so new to the league, another figure quietly wandered into the frame of McGee’s latest vlog.
At first it was hard to recognize them, racking the rolodex of Lakers before realizing: Wait... is that Talen Horton-Tucker?
The Lakers’ rookie has clearly lost a ton of weight, and it’s not the only way he’s making an impression on the purple and gold as they look to restart the season.