The Los Angeles Lakers' long nightmare is over. After losing an unthinkable 55 games, they landed a sought-after prospect in the lottery, Kobe Bryant's body continues mending rapidly thanks to his mamba blood and team president Jeanie Buss still has a ton of championship trophies to display in her office for prospective free agents.
To be sure, the Lakers' status as a marquee franchise persists despite the clunker that was 2013-14. However, the team's future remains opaque. The roster has three players signed entering July's free-agency period, according to Spotrac: Kobe, Steve Nash and Robert Sacre. The position of head coach also remains wide-open, with the team seeming to leave that decision up to the best free agents around the league as a sweetener for committing to the Lake Show.
Among the plethora of question marks, two stand out as concrete: Will Pau Gasol return? And is the team that committed $48.5 million to a degrading Kobe really gunning to save $500,00 on their talented rookie forward? The remaining rumors around the team are awash with league-wide speculation over the dest ...
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