The Lakers knew they’d enter this season with a target on their backs. They probably didn’t know how that target would get smaller and smaller.
Thirteen games into the NBA season, the team with all the excuses to get off to a slow start has the best record in the league, a 7-0 mark on the road, the third-ranked defense and the seventh-best offense.
If you’re one of those teams chasing, now is as good of a time as any to start smashing the turbo button.
The Brooklyn Nets did that Wednesday, trading picks and their best young players to acquire James Harden, giving them unquestionably the most talented “Big Three” in the current NBA.