On a team loaded with quality veterans, there’s only one Laker under the age of 25.
In fact, Talen Horton-Tucker just turned 20 in November, and yet, he’s been so effective in limited minutes that head coach Frank Vogel has had to find ways to get him on the floor, at the expense of minutes to trusted vets.
To gain a better understanding of what THT is all about, we Zoomed in when the Lakers were on the road to trace his basketball journey back to his childhood in Chicago, through Simeon Career Academy, one year at Iowa State, a Round 2 selection by the Lakers in the 2019 NBA Draft, the G-League and the Bubble up through today.