Ranking The Los Angeles Lakers’ 5 Best Players After One Month

A month into the 2016-17 NBA season, it’s time to put together a ranking of the Los Angeles Lakers’ five best players with December just around the corner.

It’s been an exciting start to the 2016-17 NBA season for the Los Angeles Lakers.

In one season, they’ve gone from one of the franchise’s worst teams of all time to a club on the fringe of playoff contention. While there’s still a lot more basketball left to be played, let’s take a look at what the Lakers are doing right now.

More specifically, I want to look at who Los Angeles’ best players are at this very moment. I ranked the Lakers’ top five players before the start of the season, and decided to take another gander after a month of action has passed. And I’ll tell you, the list looks quite different at this point in time.

Now it’s important to remember that this aims to rank them based on their current play. This isn’t a barometer of how good they could be or how good they were a year ago — it’s a ranking of the Lakers’ best players right now. There’s a lot of quality talent on this roster, so there were plenty of players to consider when putting this list together.

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Here is my ranking of the Lakers’ five best players right now. Be forewarned: There will likely be some unhappy campers based on players I left off the list.