Hoops Tonight - Lakers Offseason Breakdown: Does LeBron have enough help to win title?
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Jason Timpf breaks down the Los Angeles Lakers’ offseason moves and discusses how LeBron James and Anthony Davis will have a shot at dethroning Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets this coming year. The Lakers are mostly running it back in 2023-24 after re-signing Austin Reaves, D’Angelo Russell, and Rui Hachimura, while adding some extra depth in Cam Reddish, Jaxson Hayes, and Gabe Vincent. Will it be enough to get them to the 2024 NBA Finals? #volume #herd
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| 0:00.0 | The volume. |
| 0:01.0 | Alright, welcome to Hoops tonight here at the volume. |
| 0:17.0 | Happy Wednesday everybody. |
| 0:18.0 | I hope all of you guys have had a great week so far. |
| 0:20.2 | Today we are going to zoom in on the Los Angeles Lakers. |
| 0:24.0 | And their off season, which I think has come to a close. |
| 0:26.5 | I think they'll sign maybe one more player. |
| 0:29.0 | They'll be someone like Tristan Thompson. |
| 0:30.0 | But for the most part, the core rotation players are what they are going to be headed into |
| 0:35.4 | next season. |
| 0:37.0 | And as you guys know, the Los Angeles Lakers are really the one team that I root for |
| 0:40.6 | on a personal level. |
| 0:41.6 | Obviously, LeBron James is the person that got me to fall in love with the game of basketball |
| 0:45.2 | in a family that I grew up that didn't really expose me to basketball. |
| 0:48.2 | So I've kind of a sentimental attachment there. |
| 0:50.4 | And so these last few years with LeBron James and the NBA will be my last few years having |
| 0:55.4 | a real rooting interest for a team. |
| 0:57.5 | They'll always have teams that I like more than others and players that I like more than |
| 1:01.3 | others. |
| 1:02.3 | But nothing like the sort of actual sentimental fanhood that I have for the Lakers as long as |
| 1:08.3 | LeBron James is still in the league. |
| 1:10.0 | So this is going to be fun for me. |
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