Entering the season, much of the hoopla surrounded the fantasy of the Lakers magically seducing Kevin Durant to come to the Lakers at the end of the 2015-2016 season, filling the ever vacant small forward hole they so politely left open for him. But it wasn’t until recently that the actual probability of any free agent wanting to play with the Lakers was even a plausible idea.
By any standards, this was going to be a trying year for the Purple and Gold. Projected to get around 25 wins on the entire season, fans knew but didn’t want to accept the sad truth of it all.