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Is the Lakers Front Office Ready for the Offseason? Who's Doing What?
The Lakers are simultaneously undertaking two projects that have some overlap in the Venn Diagram, but aren't entirely aligned. First, they have to think about how to build a winning team around Luka Dončić as quickly as possible, putting enormous pressure on this offseason to be quite excellent. Second, they're engaged in a long-term project of building out the basketball operation and the franchise generally into something far more modern and performing than it has been.
The former project has its first big tests coming up soon with the Draft and free agency, both of which will provide…
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