With the 7th overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, the Los Angeles Lakers select Julius Randle from the University of Kentucky. With those 22 words, the youth movement in LA had begun.
Begrudgingly, Lakers fans had to accept that for the next number of years, the championship window was closed.
Over that four year period, Lakers fans had learned to embrace the youth movement. Not since the days of Eddie Jones, Cedric Ceballos, Nick Van Exel and Vlade Divac had there been this much excitement about the Lakers young prospects.