The Los Angeles Lakers have LeBron James and enough cap space to add a second star next summer, but Brandon Ingram panning out could raise the team’s potential ceiling even higher.
Ingram — the former No. 2 overall pick in 2016 — has showed flashes of potential of varying lengths and levels of brightness throughout his short career so far, and he’s basically been a human Rorschach test during that time. Some see greatness, others see a future bust and still more see plenty of things in between.
Basically, everyone sees the same thing when they look at Ingram, but no one can quite agree on what that thing is, although we can count James in the camp that thinks Ingram could be extraordinary (via Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports):
“[Ingram’s] got the juice,” James told Yahoo Sports.