The Lakers take one of their first steps toward building their summer league team.
The past few years have witnessed a renewed focus among Lakers fans summer league, if only because it was the first opportunity to view the prized prospects the parent team lost dozens of games for the season prior. This focus, however, has also to a certain extent been inclusive of the remainder of the squad, almost always a motley collection of undrafted free agents and veteran players from the D-League and overseas hoping to catch the eye of a front office somewhere.