This has hardly resembled a basketball season for the Los Angeles Lakers; rather the year has more closely resembled a sentimental, nightmarish tribute to Kobe Bryant’s 20th and final campaign with the organization.
Now that the trade deadline has come and gone, it's clear that watching the Lakers will remain a depressing exercise for the next few months.
Instead of selling off their inconvenient stable of veterans before Thursday afternoon’s trade deadline passed, the Lakers opted for inaction. Outside of a possible buyout, the roster will not change for the rest of this season.
Standing pat was far from a worst-case scenario. The Lakers could have foolishly put a dent in this summer’s cap space by taking on a long-term contract. They could have traded future draft picks.
That's a win. Still, it wasn’t an ideal outcome.
Instead of accumulating assets to help with their rebuild, the Lakers will roll on as the NBA’s most dysfunctional team on both sides of the ball, with players like Lou Williams, Roy Hibbert, Brandon Bass and Ni ...
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