Last season, the Lakers’ woes were not limited to on-court shortcomings as the franchise as a whole failed in their quest for the playoffs. In many ways, the team needed a complete reset after diagnosing its problems.
Fortunately, they traded for a basketball psychiatrist.
On the premiere episode of his podcast on Tuesday, Patrick Beverley — acquired via trade this offseason from Utah — said that Suns guard Devin Booker referred to him as a basketball psychiatrist during the Lakers’ preseason game against Phoenix in Las Vegas.
“We were in Vegas and we were at the free throw line and Devin Booker called me a basketball psychiatrist of teams.