Los Angeles Lakers: Ranking big offseason moves by likelihood
By Jason Reed
The Los Angeles Lakers’ front office is looking to make a big move this offseason after signing LeBron James last offseason to contend for a title.
This is the year. This is the year where the Los Angeles Lakers are supposed to make something happen and the front office is supposed to build a title-contending team. Although the Lakers missed the postseason this year and still have five games to play, they are at least one step in with LeBron James.
Plus, this roster is a lot better than anyone if giving credit for. The team only got to play LeBron, Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram on the same night 23 times in 2019, recording a 15-8 record in the process.
A full season of a healthy roster would have easily made the Lakers a playoff team. Anything that could have gone wrong did go wrong for the Lakers in LeBron’s first year.
However, even if they did make the playoffs, the Lakers likely were not going to get past the juggernauts in the Western Conference. The Western Conference Finals was the team’s absolute ceiling, although even that seems laughable now.
Regardless of what happened this year the front office was going to try and add star power alongside LeBron James this summer in order to complete the title-contending puzzle that started two years ago.
The summer of 2018 and 2019 was touted by the front office in different reports before the team even signed LeBron James. What the team does this summer will determine if this can succeed or if it is a huge failure.
While the Lakers can go many different directions, we picked our five biggest offseason moves that actually made sense and ranked them by likelihood.