Latest / Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers
Can The Lakers Create an Identity Around Luka Dončić? Plus A MASSIVE (FAKE) TRADE
After a season of upheaval, Lakers need to figure out how to create an identity heading into next year. The good news is that Rob Pelinka and Co. don't have to do a lot of thinking to figure out the core of that identity - It's Luka Dončić. The identity is a team that plays hard, plays defense, plays unselfishly. Sure. All teams say that. But the path to that is figuring out how to create those attributes with players that fit beautifully around Luka. It's a heliocentric model, where Dončić is the sun. LeBron James, the former sun, can work in this world (and have plenty of celestial moments…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.