How Los Angeles can add one of the East's best two-way wings.
That has less to do with the performance of new head coach J.J. Redick than it does with team vice president of basketball operations and general manager Rob Pelinka's personnel decisions over the years.
The team did make a return to the Western Conference Finals in 2023, but otherwise has either finished as a play-in team or outside of the playoffs entirely . Realistically, given the team's limited future draft equity, it would probably be easiest for Pelinka to acquire role players on mid-sized contracts — ideally shoring up the Lakers' perimeter defense and center depth behind Davis.
He'd add another supplemental playmaker alongside James , could be counted on to make an open jumper , is elite at drawing contact and getting to the foul line, and could take the Lakers' toughest defensive assignments along the wing. In a Western Conference that's currently led by three clubs with youth and depth in the 19-5 Oklahoma City Thunder, the 17-8 Houston Rockets, and the 17-8 Memphis Grizzlies, even Butler's arrival may not be able to put L.A.
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