Lakers Talk Player Development: It's Not Just About Cam Carr and Adou Thiero

Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers · Oct 5, 2026 · 21m

The Lakers have a lot of needs going forward, and not a lot of ways to meet them. Not much draft capital, limited cap flexibility, and so on.

So it's critical that their young, cost controlled players develop into real, useful NBA players. That starts with Cam Carr and Adou Thiero, both of whom could push for playing time this season if their improvement arc continues. But while those two are the most important part of the young player equation, the development challenge doesn't stop with them. The Lakers also would benefit in a big way from hitting on some of their two-way players, finding…