What will Kyle Kuzma’s role be on the Los Angeles Lakers next season?
Queries about what part Kyle Kuzma will play next year on the Los Angeles Lakers have been flowing through the tendrils of the internet for weeks now.
Here are just a few of the questions Lakers fans have been pondering during the offseason about Kyle Kuzma:
- Will he be a starter next season?
- If he starts, what position will he play?
- Will he be the first big off the bench?
- Will he win the 6th man of the year award?
These questions are fun to contemplate, but in today’s modern NBA, it doesn’t matter whether a player starts or comes off the bench. Similarly, positional labels are no longer critical.
However, one area of great significance in the NBA is the role that each player fills on his team.
Everyone knows that LeBron James is going to close games as the Lakers “de facto” point guard. Folks in LA also understand that Anthony Davis will finish fourth quarters as LA’s primary roll man.
Conversely, nobody knows what role Kyle Kuzma will have throughout games or how he’ll be deployed during the end of contests.
Let’s examine if Kyle Kuzma’s role next season will resemble the part Kevin Love played during his time with LeBron James on the Cleveland Cavaliers.