EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- The Los Angeles Lakers' plan to help LeBron James extend his unprecedented prime into the 21st season of an illustrious career involves adding talent around him, not so much cutting his minutes.
"Bron, he does a great job taking care of himself," Lakers coach Darvin Ham said Thursday at a news conference ahead of the start of L.A.'s training camp next week. "The team that's around him now, the pieces that we have in place, those guys are going to step up and do a lot of heavy lifting early.