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2016-17 Los Angeles Lakers Season Preview

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It is impossible to analyze anything about the Lakers’ present without interweaving it with their future. This is a team which just hired a new, 36 years young, head coach and whose foundation is built on similarly inexperienced players. Any examination of them must be viewed through the prism of them being works in progress rather than fully formed, finished products. While looking forward as a means of examining today, though, it is also impossible to avoid gazing backwards at what this organization has been, who it has lost, and how that shapes where the team currently stands and where it is going.