What's next for the Lakers with Russell Westbrook hamstrung, Dennis Schroder sidelined with a finger injury and Anthony Davis nursing a sore back? Nothing good.
Russell Westbrook came off the bench in the Lakers’ final preseason game in ‘an exploratory move,’ but he quickly left because of a hamstring injury.“No frustrating part of the process,” Patrick Beverley told The Times after the game Friday. “Nothing’s been frustrating. Everything’s been perfect.”
James listed a group of Western Conference teams that’ll enter the regular season with more continuity than his Lakers, a list so long that he forgot to include the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors. How this team ends up competing with them, though, is up in the air. Yet what is the stomach for early-season lumps, a tough schedule paired with a new coach and intense scrutiny and speculation on Westbrook, either in regard to his role on the Lakers or in a trade out of L.A.?
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