The night before Lakers training camp began, Vander Blue and Brandon Ingram met up to watch some film.
They weren’t checking out tape of opponents, but instead studying the other 18 players that would be joining them at camp.
Blue — a three-year veteran of the South Bay Lakers and reigning NBA G League MVP — isn’t about to waste his shot to make the Lakers’ regular-season roster.
So, in his first camp with the purple and gold, he is putting in as much work and preparation as possible.
Operating with a “first in, last out” mentality, Blue has been arriving at the UCLA Health Training Center at 8 a.