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Los Angeles Lakers: 3 reasons to feel optimistic about the future

By Addam Goldman

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The Los Angeles Lakers 2018-2019 season was a disaster, but heading into the summer, there are a few players on the Purple and Gold who should give LA fans hope for the future.

Could the Los Angeles Lakers regular season have gone any worse? The Purple and Gold got off to a 20-14 start, teasing Lakers fans around the world and giving them high expectations for the first time in five years.

Then all of this happened:

  • LeBron James injured his groin.
  • Anthony Davis trade rumors swirled.
  • The Lakers players felt gloomy because of the AD trade rumors and didn’t play hard.
  • Lonzo Ball went down with an ankle injury.
  • LeBron came back from his groin injury, but he played defense worse than a Division 3 college player.
  • “Maginka” traded Ivica Zubac for Mike Muscala in the worst deal of the season.
  • Brandon Ingram went down with one of the most random injuries of the year.
  • The Lakers had to depend on Rajon Rondo, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and JaVale McGee (you never want to rely on three players who don’t care about winning).
  • The Lakers lost the majority of their games, behind the awful defensive effort of Rondo, KCP, McGee, and James.
  • The Lakers finished the season with their five best players (James, Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma, and Josh Hart) on the bench.
  • Before the last game of the season, Magic Johnson quit like a coward in front of the media.

In a season where the best news was that the blood clot in Brandon Ingram’s shoulder wasn’t career ending and that Lonzo Ball will stop wearing the Big Baller Brand shoes that his dad gives him, there are still a few reasons for Lakers fans to feel a ray of positivity going into the 2019-2020 season.

Note: The Purple and Gold will have over $40 million to spend during the upcoming offseason, but considering Rob Pelinka’s horrific track record as the Lakers GM, there’s a very good chance he’ll spend that money like a drunk dude at a bar trying to impress a girl.

He’ll probably sign two over-the-hill players with big names who don’t make sense together, like DeMarcus Cousins and DeAndre Jordan. If Cousins and Jordan do play for the Lakers next season, they’d form a terrible version of the twin towers, an antithetical rendition of the Spurs duo of Tim Duncan and David Robinson.

Therefore, I can’t list the Lakers upcoming offseason riches as an object of sanguinity, because that money in all likelihood will buy the type of players who’ll-give brief moments of comic relief- but overall cause anguish for the Lakers hopeful.

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