Each of the players the Los Angeles Lakers signed in free agency this year bring with them plenty of experience as a starter, which provides head coach Luke Walton both with a wealth of depth and challenge ahead.
Though, just like Lakers president of basketball operations Magic Johnson explained the benefits of it, Walton welcomes the abundance of options at his disposal. Ahead of the Lakers opening training camp, the third-year head coach said he’d begun piecing various rotations together.
“Even what they call the ‘small-ball lineup,’ within that there’s three or four different small-ball lineups I want to see,” Walton said.