re: Honest question for Lakers fans

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Obviously there’s turnover on every team and I’m not accusing anybody of bandwagoning here.

Pels have a very new roster, but we’re also doing a ground floor rebuild.

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The Lakers were also rebuilding. The end of the Kobe era had them looking at guys like Jordan Clarkson as the future.

I see it like this. The FO job is to upgrade the roster. They clearly did upgrade the roster. When you have the chance to acquire good players, you have to.

To use an old Lakers example, I was bummed when they traded Vlade Divac to Charlotte. Vlade was a likeable guy and had been a Laker for a while. But, they got Kobe Bryant in return. Those are the sort of moves a franchise has to make to upgrade.