An Important Disclaimer: Lakers head coach Darvin Ham has said he will “tinker” with various lineups throughout training camp, and that he hasn’t committed to a fifth member of the team’s starting lineup alongside LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Austin Reaves and D’Angelo Russell.
But with those caveats out of the way, and while acknowledging this could be much ado about nothing, it appears that the incumbent Jarred Vanderbilt got the nod over Rui Hachimura — or even a two-big lineup with Christian Wood — in at least the final scrimmage of the team’s first day of training camp on Tuesday in El Segundo (via Jovan Buha of The Athletic on X):
“For those keeping track, the starters are all wearing purple jerseys (Davis, Reaves) with the bench players wearing white (Vincent, Wood, Prince, etc.