Having pulled off a string of deals in the days and weeks leading up to the NBA trade deadline on Thursday, Los Angeles Lakers vice president of basketball operations and general manager, Rob Pelinka, said the team got ahead of the work to be done this summer in free agency.
"I think a deep-dive into this, you can almost look at it as 'pre-agency,'" Pelinka told reporters on a conference call on Saturday. "We very intentionally planned these moves to provide optionality in July. ... It really is an exciting time, I think, for Laker Nation.