Last time the Los Angeles Lakers took the floor in a regular-season NBA game, the storied franchise was falling 122-99 to the Sacramento Kings in embarrassing fashion to complete the worst single season in team history.
Just a few months later, the Lakers look like a completely different team—ready to forget the woes of the past two seasons and try to begin a rebuild years in the making.
The starting five for the Lakers in that loss to the Kings consisted of Ryan Kelly, Jordan Hill, Tarik Black, Vander Blue and Jabari Brown. In Wednesday’s season opener against the Minnesota Timberwolves, there will be a whole new group of starters, with youngsters D’Angelo Russell, Jordan Clarkson and Julius Randle joining veterans Roy Hibbert and Kobe Bryant looking like the group most suited to start.
There are still plenty of reasons for skepticism about the new-look Lakers: Bryant is aging, Hibbert hasn’t been great in recent years and the three young players haven’t established themselves as stars quite yet. But this is the most exciting team the Lake ...
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