The retooling of the Los Angeles Lakers feels more like reconstruction, remodeling on the strength of good bones on an old house in an affluent neighborhood with plenty of new parts shuffled in and out of Staples Center.
It’s hard to remember a once-removed champion doing so much, so quick in the aftermath of playoff elimination. Especially when the reasoning can so easily be attributed to injury rather than ineffectiveness, age or anything else we’ve been fed for the last two months.
LeBron James has clearly heard some of the fair observations concerning the Lakers’ key acquisitions, namely Russell Westbrook, Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard and Malik Monk, and in true James fashion has created a rallying cry for the upcoming season with a recent (deleted) tweet.