While they can’t trade for Jrue Holiday until December 15, the Los Angeles Lakers should consider letting Blazers’ general manager Joe Cronin know what they would be willing to give up for Jrue if Portland were to wait. The grand prize the Lakers could give the Blazers for waiting to…

The new and improved version of the Los Angeles Lakers start training camp with 6 players potentially competing for the 2 remaining starting positions alongside LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and Austin Reaves. Gabe Vincent with his superior defense and better playoff performance should win the Lakers’ starting point guard job…

Heading into camp as one of a half dozen teams with a good shot to win this season’s NBA championship, the Lakers are perfectly positioned for one last big trade at the deadline to make them championship favorites. With one of the deepest and most diverse rosters in the league…

After disastrously trading for Russell Westbrook, Rob Pelinka’s pulled off a dramatic comeback by prioritizing fit, upside, tradability, and continuity to transform the Lakers from a lottery team to a championship contender. The problem that’s haunted the Lakers the last three years was not that Pelinka didn’t know what the…

With the signing of Christian Wood, the Lakers now have what could be the best 12-man rotation in the NBA if they can figure out how to get minutes for everybody and how to keep their older injury-prone superstars healthy. While the NBA’s new Player Participation Policy has tightened rules…

The remade Los Angeles Lakers are so deep after signing Christian Wood that it doesn’t matter who starts because they have the depth and diversity to create multiple starting lineups that could win an NBA championship. That Rob Pelinka was able to put together this roster from the ashes of…

Thanks to great moves at last season’s trade deadline and this offseason, the Lakers now find themselves with the deepest and most talented roster and the most legitimate tradable contracts since signing LeBron James. That bodes well for the Lakers’ championship hopes for next season and for their chances to…

Sometimes young stars are given nicknames so perfect that they stick and the player and the nickname become synonymous: Earvin Johnson and Magic, Kobe Bryant and Black Mamba, Austin Reaves and White Mamba. Watching Austin Reaves taking over play every time he entered the game for Team USA reminded me…

Austin Reaves is such a hot NBA story right now that you have to forgive drunk and delirious Lakers fans speculating whether ‘Hillbilly Kobe’ could develop into the elusive third superstar L.A. needs for a new Big Three. What Austin Reaves has done in just two seasons going from an…