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Lakers Guard Josh Hart Calls LeBron James ‘Role Model’ For Young NBA Players

The Los Angeles Lakers have one of the more promising rookie classes in the entire NBA, somehow managing to snag Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma, Josh Hart and Thomas Bryant in one fell swoop during one of the most talent-laden drafts in recent history.

Those four are part of the newest generation of NBA talent, a group that has been empowered by the current political climate and a changing league to be more vocal about social and political issues they feel strongly about.

The day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day as the Lakers toured the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Hart told Dan Woike of the L.