The Lakers might be retaining a lot of last year’s talent, but they are looking at ways to improve outside their roster, including potentially bringing back Brook Lopez.
The Lakers’ have already seen two big inflection points before the start of free agency. One was D’Angelo Russell opting into his contract and the other was LeBron James opting out of his deal, but being open to a discount in order to open up the full mid-level exception.
With those two moves...