Lakers newsletter: Three teams you might have forgotten who could challenge the Lakers

Here are three teams in the Western Conference that you might have forgotten about that could present a big challenge for the Lakers.

Hey everyone, this is Dan Woike of the L.A. Times, and welcome to the Lakers newsletter, our weekly check-in on the team that’s given the world a Magic and a Smush. We’re inching our way toward training camp at the end of September, the roster still looking the same, the coaching staff almost fully assembled and, well, not a lot to talk about, right? Wrong! It’s the Lakers. The NBA. And ask my wife, I never shut up. So yeah, still plenty to talk about.

Golden State Warriors Holistically, the Warriors cannot be as good, not with Klay Thompson playing for a different team after being one of the organizational pillars for Golden State's best stretch of basketball ever. But, look, while they lost a great shooter, Buddy Hield is a great shooter, too. He’ll need to make the same kind of big shots Thompson did for a decade, but Hield’s going to get plenty of clean looks.

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