If your organization acquires LeBron James, you won the offseason. Those are the rules. Even still, the other moves made by the Los Angeles Lakers this summer contained some real head-scratchers. In an effort to explain the team’s decisions, Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka made these recent comments, which caught my eye:
“I think to try to play the Warriors at their own game is a trap. No one is going to beat them at their own game, so that is why we wanted to add these elements of defense and toughness and depth and try to look at areas where we will have an advantage.