Even in my new-ish role overseeing the entire SB Nation NBA network, the team I watch the most frequently is still the one I came up blogging about and was raised rooting for: The Los Angeles Lakers. So while I obviously have a decent familiarity with the game of our old friend D’Angelo Russell — and to a lesser degree, Malik Beasley and Jarred Vanderbilt — no one knows players from the Minnesota Timberwolves and Utah Jazz better than our friends over at Canis Hoopus and SLC Dunk, respectively.
With that in mind, I asked the site managers at both places — Jack Borman at Canis, and James Hansen over in SLC — for some thoughts on the Lakers’ new acquisitions who they’ve watched far more closely than I have as of late.