Silver Screen and Roll Jul 16, 2017
Lakers Mailbag: Kyle Kuzma impresses in Las Vegas, Luol Deng’s disastrous contract
Things are looking good for the summer league Lakers. The Los Angeles Lakers are in the final stretch of play at Las Vegas Summer League, heading to the seminfinals on Sunday. It’s been an exciting look at the future of the team watching Lonzo Ball’s progress game-by-game. Away from Sin City, the Lakers made headlines when their patience finally paid off in free agency. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is heading to Los Angeles, their big splash of the summer. It felt like the right time to get in a mailbag before Summer League ends, so let’s dig into it, shall we? Feel free to shoot any...
Silver Screen and Roll Jun 25, 2017
Lakers News: Larry Nance, Jr. says he and Julius Randle are working on shooting threes next season
This could be big, if it works. As we previously detailed, the Los Angeles Lakers have a major potential logjam at power forward on their roster right now. Larry Nance, Jr. and Julius Randle are nearly full-time fours, Luol Deng needs to play there if the Lakers are going to get any return on their $72 million investment in him, Brandon Ingram will likely play there some eventually and the front office just drafted rookie Kyle Kuzma. If the Lakers don’t make a deal to address this buildup at the position, then it would certainly help a lot if Randle and Nance could slide up a position....
