On a Lakers media day that also featured the official Los Angeles arrival of LeBron James and rest of the team’s new veteran additions and — to a far lesser extent — their latest rookie class, how Ivica Zubac spent his summer was never going to be the biggest storyline.
Zubac knows that he’s flying under the radar entering a make-or-break third season, but if he can trend back towards the usefulness he showed during his rookie campaign and away from the hopelessness of his bench-bound second season, he could quickly become a big story given how lacking the Lakers are in center options.