Can The Lakers Create an Identity Around Luka Dončić? Plus A MASSIVE (FAKE) TRADE

After a season of upheaval, Lakers need to figure out how to create an identity heading into next year. The good news is that Rob Pelinka and Co. don't have to do a lot of thinking to figure out the core of that identity - It's Luka Dončić. The identity is a team that plays hard, plays defense, plays unselfishly. Sure. All teams say that. But the path to that is figuring out how to create those attributes with players that fit beautifully around Luka. 

It's a heliocentric model, where Dončić is the sun. 

LeBron James, the former sun, can work in this world (and have plenty of celestial moments himself). Austin Reaves? It can work, if the other pieces adjust accordingly. But right now the team is so out of balance, some changes will need to be made in order to create a more coherent structure. 

With that in mind... how about a blockbuster (hypothetical) trade, where EVERYTHING that isn't nailed to the floor and can be traded goes, in the interest of bringing more balance to the roster. Get a center, get a wing, and so on. 

Is this monster 3-team deal Andy constructed a good blueprint for LA? 

 

HOSTS: Andy and Brian Kamenetzky

 

SEGMENT 1: What kind of identity should the Lakers construct around Luka? 

SEGMENT 2: Can the Lakers create better top end talent AND better depth? 

 

SEGMENT 3: How about this (hypothetical) blockbuster? 

 

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