Lakers: Early Season Grades

Just a handful of games into the season, we’re handing out early progress reports for all 15 players on the Lakers’ roster.

For many students across the country, semester grades are just around the corner. Months of staying up late and/or sleeping in and busting out a four-page essay in less than an hour will finally have purpose.

We felt the players on the Lakers also deserved a grade of some sort around this time. Is it still early in the season? Yes, but many of these players upward or downwards trends aren’t likely to change any time soon.

Like any classroom, the Lakers have their class clown (Nick Young), their foreign exchange student (Timofey Mozgov), their popular kid (D’Angelo Russell) and their new kid (Brandon Ingram).

They also have the kids that dropped early in the semester because the class was a lot harder than they anticipated (Yi Jianlian).

However, this progress report is for the 15 players that stuck around for better or for worse. Some are shining, honor roll students, while others might struggle to stick around past this semester.