Lakers guard Lou Williams: 'We just don’t want to see people slaughtered in the streets': As the Los Angeles Lakers ponder what kind of gesture they’ll make to protest social injustice, the issue remains on the mind of guard Lou Williams. “I understand police have a hard job to do, but the reasoning that these murders are happening, or whatever they want to call it, it’s troubling,” Williams said after a Lakers training camp practice in Santa Barbara. -- Los Angeles Times
Lakers keep emphasizing a defense-first approach: Offense is the fun part, but for most of training camp so far, Lakers Coach Luke Walton’s focus has been elsewhere.