The Lakers offseason is probably unfinished, and for the sake of every one of the team’s fans, let’s hope that’s the case. But they also have 14 players under contract, plus a couple of two-ways, and with the current lull in trade negotiations, it’s not a bad time to take stock of what exactly the Lakers could look like on the court in the 2022-23 season.
Now, because this is “I Love Basketball”, and Raj and Sabreena are not martyrs, they decided to swap out Russell Westbrook for a theoretical shooter — let’s call him Buddy Hield — in this exercise.