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Los Angeles Lakers: LeBron James is gone for weeks… What’s next

By Ronald Agers

Mar 20, 2021; Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) is helped up by Los Angeles Lakers guard Wesley Matthews (9) and Los Angeles Lakers guard Alex Caruso (4) after injuring his leg in the second quarter at Staples Center. Mandatory Credit: Robert Hanashiro-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 20, 2021; Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) is helped up by Los Angeles Lakers guard Wesley Matthews (9) and Los Angeles Lakers guard Alex Caruso (4) after injuring his leg in the second quarter at Staples Center. Mandatory Credit: Robert Hanashiro-USA TODAY Sports /
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Introducing the Los Angeles Lakers’ number one scoring option… KYLE KUZMA!

Remember all of those conversations on how Kyle Kuzma struggled as the third scoring option behind Anthony Davis and LeBron James? Oh well, those days are gone for a little while as the Lakers need Kuz’s scoring badly. Even plays like this will get a pass…

https://twitter.com/Lakers/status/1373370536919638016

But 8 points on 3-8 shooting will not be overlooked. After LeBron left the game. Kuzma looked like most of the roster that was in a state of shock when the best player didn’t return. He’s going to have to get over that shock very quickly because he has to do the one thing that everyone knew he could do since his rookie year…Get buckets in LeBron and AD’s absence.

Now it can be done. He did it last year on the road on Oklahoma City when he dropped 36 points in one of his best scoring performances of his career.

The challenge for Kyle Kuzma is scoring like he did before the stars showed up and doing all of the little things that made him a major part of the Lakers’ future.

If he struggles over the next month, Lake Show Life will have to dust off this article written a while back about his polarizing presence in Lakers Nation.

If he struggles as he did against the Hawks, this one player has to be looked at as a potential reason. Kuzma will be running the wings and cutting in the half-court. Somebody has to get the ball to him in the right position for him to succeed. Read on to see the biggest player storyline for the Los Angeles Lakers.