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Lakers Nation Podcast

Ideal Offseason: Building Out A Roster With Russell Westbrook

Lakers Nation Podcast

Medium Large LLC

Sports, Basketball

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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With rumors suggesting that Russell Westbrook will still be on the Lakers' roster to start the season, we take a look at what the offseason could produce... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Game goal is for the swim.

0:04.8

It's four, three in the win.

0:06.3

Oh, it's got.

0:07.1

2020 NBA championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers.

0:11.0

Hello, Lakers Nation.

0:15.8

Welcome in, Trevor Lane here for Lakersnation.com.

0:18.6

You're home for everything.

0:19.6

Lakers, this is the Lakersnation.com. You're home for everything. Lakers, this is the Lakersnation

0:21.0

dot com podcast. Let's do another ideal offseason episode. I've already done one of these.

0:27.7

And what we do is we break down a roster build. So we go through and we build out the Lakers

0:32.2

roster through free agency, through the draft, trades, all of that. And we come up with a

0:37.1

somewhat realistic roster the Lakers could put together if things

0:40.6

tend to break right for them under a very specific set of circumstances.

0:44.5

So, for example, the last one of these that I did, we pretended that the Lakers were willing

0:49.3

to trade anything in order to improve right now.

0:53.1

So everything was available, 2027 first,

0:55.8

2029 first, young players, whatever. Everything was available. What kind of roster do you end up with?

1:01.4

That was the last one we did. For this one, we are going to have the parameters be Russell

1:05.7

Westbrook stays with the Lakers. And that feels like the path that we're actually heading down right now,

1:11.6

which is not what we would have said going into the offseason. So today, I'm going to build

1:15.1

out a roster with Russell Westbrook still on the team and try to make the team as competitive

1:20.5

as possible. So that's that's my goal today. And of course, I stay grounded in reality as much as

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