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Do the Lakers really need to make a big free agency splash?

Looking at past contenders to try to find out if the team's rebuild is on the right path.

(Author's Note: This piece ran on Friday, July 22 with an error - thank you to those that noticed it right away and allowed me to make the required changes. Sorry for the mistake)

With the emphasis on the Lakers and their free agency "failures" reaching a fever pitch over the past couple of seasons, I became very interested in how the contenders have been built over the past ten years. How were those teams constructed?