Welcome to our Lakers Season Preview Series! For the next several weeks, we’ll be writing columns every weekday, breaking down the biggest questions we have about every player the Lakers added this offseason. Today, we take a look at Lonnie Walker IV.
After purging all but two players from their 2020 Championship-winning roster, and returning just five from last season, the Lakers will enter the 2022-23 season with another roster that has more new players than returners. Through free agency and one trade, they restocked their depth in the front and backcourts, but have maintained a relative deficit of veritable contributors at the wing, sharply contrasting with the roster they rolled into 2019-20 with.