If Los Angeles Lakers Head Coach Mike D'Antoni is known for anything in the NBA, it's his ability to turn marginally talented players into desirable commodities by virtue of a run-and-gun, freewheeling style of play.
There is no shortage of such players at Lakers training camp. Seriously over the salary cap, management went out of its way to stock the roster with inexpensive young, athletic, up-and-down runners and gunners in search of a second chance.
There might easily be a star in the making from among a group of Lakers newcomers that includes Nick Young, Shawne Williams, Wesley Johnson, Jordan Farmar, Xavier Henry and Marcus Landry.
It's happened at each of D'Antoni's previous two stints as head coach, in Phoenix and New York. What's to stop it from happening in Los Angeles?
Remember Eddie House, Quentin Richardson, Raja Bell, James Jones and Leandro Barbosa? They all found their calling playing under D'Antoni in Phoenix. Landry and Williams both rose from obscurity to center stage, albeit briefly, playing for D'Antoni in New York.
And, then, there was Jeremy Lin who turned the Big Apple u ...
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