Now tell me Julius Randle is having a “slow start to the 2023-24 season.”
Randle is playing his 10th season of pro hoops since he landed in the Association coming out of Kentucky. He did so by getting drafted as a top-10 pick by the Los Angeles Lakers in 2014. Seventh overall, Hollywood bound.
The 2014 Lakers sucked a bit. Los Angeles had enjoyed playoffs basketball uninterruptedly from 2006 through 2013. They won two Finals—back-to-back, no less—in June 2009 and 2010. Then they made it to the Western Conference semis twice after losing in the first round in 2013.