Los Angeles Lakers head coach Luke Walton will be the first to tell you that before Thomas Robinson became a regular at the facility in the offseason, the 25-year-old forward was nowhere on his radar. Robinson had bounced around on five different teams over his first four NBA seasons, unable to find any consistency in the NBA.
It wasn’t until Robinson started working out at the Lakers facility, participating in pick-up games over the summer, that Walton and the Lakers staff started to take notice.
“Every single day his teams were winning and he was one of the better players on the court.