Los Angeles Lakers fans have good reason to be excited again, but the team still has major frontcourt holes to fill.
Consider the situation: Kobe Bryant has retired, Roy Hibbert is unlikely to be re-signed (nor should he be) and Metta World Peace is a free agent and more of a mentor at 36.
Also, the underwhelming Robert Sacre and Ryan Kelly are unrestricted free agents and, at best, end-of-the- bench contributors.
To say the Lakers need a starting center and small forward is an understatement. And let’s not hold out hope that Nick “Swaggy P” Young will miraculously rise like a phoenix from the ashes of his last two immolated seasons and take glorious wing once again.