Welcome to our Lakers Season Preview Series! For the next several weeks, we’ll be writing columns every week day, breaking down the biggest questions we have about every player the Lakers added this offseason. Today, we take a look at Wayne Ellington.
Unlike Magic Johnson three years before, Rob Pelinka and the Lakers’ current front office understood that a team with LeBron James and a shooting-deficient point guard desperately needs role players around them who can space the floor and knock down shots. Enter a parade of mostly 30-somethings who, with a couple of exceptions, are various levels of good at that exact skill.